Abraham lincoln's 10 percent plan proposed that when 10 percent an oath of loyalty to the united states an election could be held to select new states and federal representatives

 Lincoln's plan for southern Reconstruction favored a speedy restoration of the southern states to the Union and a minimum of federal interventions in their affairs
* But Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 ==> Andrew Johnson became President and the task of Reconstruction fell to him
* At first, Johnson seemed to agree with the Radical Republicans that the South should be punished for seceding.