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Article: Reconstructing America.(Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction plan after the Civil War)
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- Cobblestone
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- February 1, 2001
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Even before the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln had begun to consider how the Confederate states should be received back into the Union. Conceived in 1863, his Reconstruction plan was remarkably lenient.
Lincoln decided that if ten percent of the voters in a Confederate state signed an oath of loyalty to the United States, that state would be readmitted to the Union. But, Lincoln's plans were met with some resistance. A group of congressmen, known as the Radical Republicans, wanted to punish the states that had seceded. Lincoln disagreed with the Radical Republicans' agenda and opposed their legislation. Then, in 1865, Lincoln was assassinated. His ...