Impact Of The 10 % Plan

One plan of Reconstruction that had an impact was Lincoln’s original plan. Lincoln’s plan was named The 10% plan. The 10% plan was the first plan to be used and was favored in the South because it was not severe and very easy. Lincoln’s plan was that 10% of white voters in the South had to take an oath of loyalty to the U.S. to be able to join it again and any Confederates who served would be offered amnesty, this included everyone but the leaders who would get punished but only minimal amount. If the state swore loyalty they would again be a U.S. state which means that they would get a representative in Congress. Congress did not like Lincoln’s 10% plan and refused to seat any representatives. Lincoln believed that punishment would not heal the country faster. Scene there was such little punishment, which would only be given to leaders, many Southerners were in favor of this plan. Also because of the little amount of punishment many Northerners were opposed to the plan. Lincoln’s plan was never used in

The Presidential plan, like the 10% plan, offered amnesty to everyone but high ranking officials and wealthy planters who owned many slaves. One thing that the Presidential plan required that the 10% plan did not was that all states must ratify the Thirteenth Amendment which would eradicate slavery throughout the entire country. The Presidential Plan punished many more people than the 10% plan did, it also said that some of the leaders would receive capital punishment. In the Presidential Plan many more people were punished so it was favored by many more Northerners but the majority thought it was still to weak of a plan. The Presidential Plan was use for about the first year of Reconstruction but then was replaced with a stronger plan that was favored by more. Congress still thought that this plan was too weak but was more tolerable than Lincoln’s