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Title: 10% Plan Lincoln


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10 PlanLincolns plan for reconstruction.
To rejoin the Union 10 of the states population
must take a loyalty oath.
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  • Presidential Reconstruction
  • President Andrew Johnsons plan for
    Reconstruction. Amnesty was given to poor white
    southerners. Wealthy southerners need to write an
    apology. They were required to take a loyalty
    oath. The state had to ratify the 13th
    Amendment.

3
Radical Reconstruction
  • Senator Thaddeus Stevens plan for Reconstruction.
    To be accepted back into the Union southern
    states had to ratify the 14th amendment. They
    had to write a new state constitution. They had
    to give the Freedmen the right to vote.

4
Amnesty
  • The government officially forgives.

5
Black Codes
  • New laws in southern states to control African
    Americans. Designed to restrict Freedmens
    opportunities to work where they wanted. The
    purpose of the codes to have whites remain
    superior.

6
Scalawags
  • Southern whites who had opposed secession.

7
Carpetbaggers
  • A name given by southerners to northern whites
    who went south to start businesses or purse
    political office after the war.
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