Question

How did President Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan differ from President Andrew Johnson’s?
A. It made no provisions for granting voting rights to the newly freed enslaved people.
B. It called for Southern landowners to surrender their lands to Union authorities.
C. It required 20 percent of a Southern state’s registered voters to take the loyalty oath.
D. It temporarily prevented high-level Confederate leaders from receiving amnesty.
E. It strongly opposed Congress’s proposal to create the Freedmen’s Bureau.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. It required 20 percent of a Southern state’s registered voters to take the loyalty oath.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer is C. It required 20 percent of a Southern state’s registered voters to take the loyalty oath

Explanation:

• President Lincoln's ten percent plan was a failure. Even before his assassination, some abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass, were opposed to the plan. Opposition from Radical Republicans would also be detrimental to the ultimate reunification of seceded states' goals and approaches.
• The goal of President Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan was to offer a moderate agreement to still-fighting Confederates in order for them to surrender to Union forces and be able to reenter the Union quickly and efficiently.
• The three points of Lincoln's reconstruction plan were to ensure that 10% of former Confederate state citizens swore an oath to the union, to work to establish new state constitutions, and to provide opportunities for former Confederate soldiers and sympathizers to be reintegrated into society granted full pardons for their wartime actions
• Originally known as the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, the plan was known as the 10 Percent Plan because it provided a path to reconstruction for Southern states if 10% of citizens agreed to swear an oath to the union and abolish slavery.

Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, lacked his predecessor's people skills, which would be sorely missed. Johnson's strategy included the following elements:

• Those who take a loyalty oath would be granted pardons.
• No pardons would be granted to high-ranking Confederate officials or those with property worth more than $20,000.
• Before a state could be readmitted, it had to abolish slavery.
• Before being readmitted, a state was required to repeal its secession ordinance.

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