because not all confederate were willing to vote
take an oath of loyalty
take an oath of loyalty
because not all confederate were willing to vote
The Wade-Davis Bill
yes
President Abraham Lincoln's reconstruction plan required Southerners to take loyalty oaths. Specifically, his Ten Percent Plan stipulated that once 10% of the voters in a Southern state took an oath of loyalty to the Union, that state could re-establish its government. This plan aimed to encourage rapid reintegration of the Southern states following the Civil War. However, it faced criticism for being too lenient toward the South.
The Wade-Davis Bill required that a majority of prewar southern voters swear loyalty to the Union.
Lincoln believed in forgiveness for the south, while the radicals wanted to punish them. While Lincoln only wanted 10 percent voters to pledge loyalty for a state to rejoin the union, the radicals wanted it to be 50. the radicals also didn't want to give any rights to the blacks.
Lincolnâ??s Ten Percent Plan only required 10% of the voters of Confederate state voters to swear an allegiance to the Union, thus leaving 90% possibly disagreeing or open to rebellion. Radical Republicans found the plan far too lenient and retaliated with the Wade-Davis Act which was vetoed by Lincoln. These actions caused a widening fissure within the Republican Party.
To be readmitted to the Union, ten percent of a state's voters were required to take an oath of allegiance to the United States. This requirement was part of the Ten Percent Plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln during the Reconstruction era, which aimed to reintegrate the Southern states following the Civil War. Once the oath was taken, the state could establish a new government and seek readmission to the Union.
C. To allow Southern states back in the Union if ten percent of the voters swore to be loyal L Southern states could set up new governments if ten percent of their voters made certain promises.
Lincoln's reconstruction plan called for rejoining of the North and the South as one nation. The southern states would get a representative in Congress when 1/10 of the voters pledged to obey the Federal Laws and take an oath of loyalty to the US.