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Reconstruction Plans. How do you rebuild a nation?. Lincoln’s Plan:. "With malice toward none, with charity for all." He wanted to reunite the north and south. Lincoln’s Plan:. 10% Plan- Once ten percent of a southern state's 1860 voters had to take an oath of loyalty, to rejoin the Union.
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Reconstruction Plans • How do you rebuild a nation?
Lincoln’s Plan: • "With malice toward none, with charity for all." • He wanted to reunite the north and south
Lincoln’s Plan: • 10% Plan- Once ten percent of a southern state's 1860 voters had to take an oath of loyalty, to rejoin the Union.
Radical Republicans: • Radical Republicans—Northerners in Congress who wanted serious changes. • Believed the South should be punished for starting the war.
Radical Republicans: • 1.Blacks should vote. (radical idea) • 2.Wanted to take rich southerners property • 3. A majority (50%) of southerners must swear loyalty.
Conservative Democrats • Southerners who did not want change. • Many were former Confederate soldiers who did not want Blacks to vote.
Conservative Democrats • Many eventually become part of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK)
Conservative Democrats • The KKK used terror tactics to keep blacks from voting.