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He feared retaliation from the border states, which supported slavery.
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Although slavery is a horrible thing, the world we know today would not be the same without it in our past. The slaves raked in most of the economy by harvesting crops, mining, and much more. They did the work nobody wanted to do.
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I think the answer will be the first one because it is both not very general and not very specific.
Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction included the Ten Percent Plan which specified that a southern state can be readmitted into the Union when there is an oath of allegiance from at least 10 percent of its voters. That includes all Southerners, except for high ranking Confederate army officers and government officials, be granted full pardon. This was Lincoln's way to end the war, unlike the Radical Republicans, Lincoln's Ten Percent plan didn't include punishing southerners, reorganizing society, developing industry, disbanding their planter aristocracy, redistribution of land in the South since the Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for starting the war.
