In the Middle of the War, What Did Lincoln Hope

question 51

Multiple Choice

In the middle of the war, what did Lincoln hope to accomplish with his Ten-Percent Plan of Reconstruction?

• A) He wanted to weaken the cause of the radical abolitionists.
• B) He wanted rich slaveowners to pay 10 percent of their family wealth to the federal government in return for amnesty.
• C) He hoped 10 percent of the southern slaves would be freed automatically in all the Confederate states.
• D) He sought to expand slavery in Mississippi and lessen it in Missouri.
• E) He wanted to weaken the Confederacy and shorten the war.

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