Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
These radicals believed that Lincoln's plan was too lenient, and this new bill would make readmission into the Union more difficult. The Bill stated that for a state to be readmitted, the majority of the state would have to take a loyalty oath, not just ten percent. Lincoln later pocket-vetoed this new bill. [2]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
IA contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection IA digitizing sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant Licensing
The first plan for legal reconstruction was introduced by Lincoln in his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, the so-called "ten percent plan" under which a loyal unionist state government would be established when ten percent of its 1860 voters pledged an oath of allegiance to the Union, with a complete pardon for those who pledged such ...
Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us