Question

In the space provided, compare and contrast Lincoln's reconstruction policy to the policy proposed in the wade davis bill which do you believe to be the most effective policy and why.

Answer 1

He ten percent plan was a proposal put forward by President Abraham Lincoln for the reinstatement of Southern states. First put forward in December 1863, this plan for Reconstruction decreed that a state could be reintegrated into the United States when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by Emancipation. Voters could then elect delegates to draft revised state constitutions and establish new state governments. The Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten Percent Plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union for former Confederate states contingent on a majority in each Southern state to take the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.