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Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan For The Reconstruction Of The United States

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Before Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, he had a plan for the Reconstruction of the South. Lincoln called his plan the Ten Percent Plan. Under the Ten Percent Plan, when ten percent of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the Union, the state could form a government and create a new constitution that made slavery illegal. Under Lincoln’s plan, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee set up governments. If Lincoln had lived, I believe that there would have been different changes in America. For example, it’s possible that African Americans could have been integrated into society faster. In addition, Lincoln could have supported and built up the Freedmen’s Bureau program even more than it already

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