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Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction


Wade-Davis Bill (1864) | National Archives

In December, President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 ...

Lincoln's Reconstruction: An Unfulfilled Vision of the Union

In his speeches during the Civil War, Lincoln envisioned a plan for reconstruction in which the elemental values of the American Revolution were preserved.

Lincoln on Reconstruction - Teaching American History

In the annual message of December 1863, and in the accompanying proclamation, I presented a plan of reconstruction, as the phrase goes, which I ...

Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | Purpose, Provisions & Legacy

' Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction became known as the Ten Percent Plan, which he hoped would be fair and attainable for Southern states. The plan required ...

Lincoln's Plan | United States History I - Lumen Learning

In early December 1863, the president began the process of reunification by unveiling a three-part proposal known as the ten percent plan that outlined how the ...

Ten percent plan - Wikipedia

The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737), was a United States presidential proclamation issued on ...

Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan | History, Elements & Significance - Lesson

Originally named the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, the plan was known as the 10 Percent Plan because it allowed Southern states a pathway to ...

Reconstruction (1865–1877): Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan - SparkNotes

The Ten-Percent Plan. Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the ...

Primary Source: Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction - NCpedia

The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and ...

Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction - National Park Service

Following Abraham Lincoln's death, President Andrew Johnson based his reconstruction plan on Lincoln's earlier measure. Johnson's plan also ...

Describe the plans for Reconstruction offered by Abraham Lincoln ...

Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent ...

Reconstruction Timeline | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

December 8: President Lincoln announces the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. It offers pardon and restoration of property -- except slaves -- to ...

The White House and Reconstruction

On December 8, 1863, President Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction; the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. This ...

Lincoln's Plans of Reconstruction - The Atlantic

Here were no humiliating terms of submission imposed on a brave people: no amnesty qualifications exacted; no banishment or confiscation laws; no test-oaths ...

Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan · Students will examine primary documents in order to understand and evaluate Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction. · Lincoln's ...

Lincoln's Plan For Reconstruction - AMERICAN HERITAGE

Not that Lincoln considered the outcome perfect, but the whole point of Lincoln's policy was that he was not expecting perfection. He wanted steps to be taken, ...

Reconstruction | Definition, Summary, Timeline & Facts | Britannica

To Lincoln, the plan was an attempt to weaken the Confederacy rather than a blueprint for the postwar South. It was put into operation in parts ...

The Wade-Davis Bill | American Battlefield Trust

When President Abraham Lincoln presented his plans for Reconstruction to Congress, the “Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction,” also ...

Ten Percent Plan (Reconstruction) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

The policy was announced by President Lincoln in December 1863 and was aimed at shortening the war by offering comparatively merciful terms for Confederate ...

Lincoln's plan of reconstruction | Library of Congress

Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction . New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1901. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/37038775/. APA citation style: McCarthy, C. H., Alfred ...