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Ten percent plan
Ten percent plan
During the American Civil War in December 1863, Abraham Lincoln
offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10
percent Reconstruction plan. It decreed that a state could be
reintegrated into the Union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that
state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide
by emancipation. The next step in the process would be for the states to
formally elect a state government. Also, a state legislature could write
a new constitution, but it also had to abolish slavery forever. At that
time, Lincoln would recognize the reconstructed government. By 1864,
Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas had established fully functioning
Unionist governments.
This policy was meant to shorten the war by offering a moderate peace
plan. It was also intended to further his emancipation policy by
insisting that the new governments abolished slavery.
Congress reacted sharply to this proclamation of Lincoln's plan.
Republicans feared that the planter aristocracy would be restored and
the blacks would be forced back into slavery. Lincoln's reconstructive
President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. By Mathew
Brady
policy toward the South was lenient because he wanted to popularize
his Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln feared that compelling
enforcement of the proclamation could lead to the defeat of the Republican Party in the election of 1864, and that
popular Democrats could overturn his proclamation. Some Republicans pushed through Congress the Wade-Davis
Bill in July 1864, which outlined more stringent requirements for re-admission. This was pocket-vetoed by Lincoln
after it passed.
The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's plan, as they thought it too lenient towards the South. They wanted more
stringent requirements for Southern states' re-admission into the Union. Lincoln, however, chose not to punish the
South. He wanted to preserve the Union and start rebuilding the wealth and prosperity of the country.
References
• Foner, Eric. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
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