Plans of Reconstruction

To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and

• accept that slaves were now free.
• pay damages to the North.
• promise never to secede again.
• set up schools for freed people.

Under President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction, a Southern state could organize a new state government when

• 10% of voters in the 1860 election had taken an oath of loyalty to the United States.
• 50% of its residents had taken a loyalty oath and sworn to uphold U.S. laws.
• 75% of reparations owed to the federal government by the state had been paid.
• 100% of enslaved African Americans in the state had been freed.

Under his “restoration program,” President Johnson offered to pardon all former citizens of the Confederacy who took an oath of loyalty to the Union, with the exception of former Confederate officers and officials as well as

• any Confederate citizen with property worth more than $20,000.
• Confederate soldiers accused of war crimes.
• formerly enslaved people who had acquired more than 40 acres of land.
• Southern Democrats who remained in Congress throughout the Civil War.

Based on the chart , the Wade-Davis Bill would have placed the harshest restrictions on

• African Americans.
• citizens of former Confederate states.
• congressional delegates.
• former Confederate officials.

Which of the following groups would not have been allowed to vote or to hold elective office under the provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill, according to the chart above?

• African Americans
• Confederate officials
• Confederate soldiers
• plantation owners