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The second reconstruction plan
They would be divided into military districts headed by union generals
a concern about Black Codes and the return of former Confederates to power
Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was simple for Confederates to took the Oath of Loyalty and follow all federal laws pertaining to slavery those who did so were given general amnesty ... Reconstruction plans allowed former Confederate States to form new governments and constitutions, as long as ten percent (10%) of their voters supported the Union during The 1860 Presidential Election ...
The Congress was controlled by the Republicans who wanted to deal with the former Confederate States in the harshest way possible. They wanted revenge for them fighting the war and their enslavement of others. President Lincoln, on the other hand, preferred to focus on reunion rather than revenge.