amnesty, because i just took a test on this. I answered the ten percent plan but that was the wrong answer.
Amnesty- pardon to white southerners, except confederate leaders
Amnesty
we couldnt build enough prisons
Many people liked Lincoln's plan for reconstruction because it was not as radical as others. Lincoln had the 10% Plan, which was that ten percent of a state's population had to declair loyalty to the Union to become a state again, and Lincoln's plan allowed former Confederate leaders to be elected into Washington.
It was important because Maryland was a slave state with pro confederate leaders.
because not all confederate were willing to vote
because not all confederate were willing to vote
He required them to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and to observe the laws that pertained to slavery.
Union. But he was a pro-slavery Democrat, politically opposed to Lincoln, and some of the cabinet doubted his loyalty.
The purpose of the North in deciding to prevent any states from seceding from the Union was accomplished. However, as with any war, the goal of restoring good will and loyalty among the former Confederate leaders failed due the North's Reconstruction policies and racism by many Southerners.
No. He was a Union General, popular with the rank and file, but mistrusted in Washington, where some of Lincoln's cabinet doubted his loyalty. After Lincoln eventually sacked him, he stood against him in the 1864 election, but lost.
swear a loyalty oath
Because it was a slave-state that had pro-Confederate leaders, and could easily have seceded. Also it was on the route between New York and Washington, and could have interrupted the movement of troops and supplies between the two centres.
Andrew Johnson granted amnesty and the restoration of property to all southerners willing to swear a loyalty oath