USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He formulated a lenient plan, based on Lincoln’s earlier 10% plan, to allow the Southern states to begin holding elections and sending representatives back to Washington.

Detailed explanation-2: -In May 1865, immediately following the assassination of President Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson and his administration created a plan for Reconstruction, which became known as Presidential Reconstruction.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ten Percent plan was a Reconstruction plan for the south put forward by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The basics of the plan were that a state would be readmitted when 10 percent of its 1860 voting population had taken an oath of allegiance to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.

Detailed explanation-4: -Johnson’s plan envisioned the following: Pardons would be granted to those taking a loyalty oath. No pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20, 000. A state needed to abolish slavery before being readmitted.