How did the Ten Percent Plan (proposed by Lincoln) help now freed black people?

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Answer 1

His ten percent plan was not for the freed slaves, it was for the re-establishment of the individual southern states who had no legal government in place since 1861. When 10% of the total male population of the state agreed to a new state constitution, they would be re-admitted to their place in the USA.

However, his plan was only a proposal and as he was the President, his views were not, in this instance, the correct or final decision. The USC states that only the LEGISLATIVE branch has the right to determine its membership, and if the traitorous states did not abide by the decision of the House and Senate, no matter who won the elections in southern states, they would never be allowed into the chambers to take their seats and again participate in the Governing of the nation that they attempted to destroy.

Article I, section 5:

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two-thirds, expel a Member.

IF Lincoln had lived, he would have had the political clout(from winning the war) to ameliorate the harshness of some of the radicals in congress who wanted to punish the traitors and reconstruction would have gone much smoother and much quicker and there would not have been such a terrible backlash against the freed slaves from 1876-1965.

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