what was wrong with the 10 percent plan and the wade davis plan in the civil war?

Answer 1

The biggest problem of these plans was almost the opposite

1) Lincoln's "Ten Percent Plan" required that when ONLY 10% of males eligible to vote had sworn an oath of future loyalty to the Union (and ALSO recognizing the end of slavery) a new government could be organized under which the state might return to the Union.

In fact, Lincoln BEGAN Reconstruction in Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas on this basis. It was not necessarily such a bad idea at THIS early stage. The question was how a plan demanding so little clear support could survive over the long haul. Obviously, support from a much larger proportion would be needed fairly soon for it to be sustainable. (Since Lincoln was assassinated immediately after Appomattox, it is impossible to tell how he might then have modified the approach.)

2) The Wade-Davis bill, on the other hand required support of a MAJORITY. But actually it was MORE than that. While Lincoln's required oath concerned FUTURE loyalty, Wade-Davis demanded an "Ironclad" oath that they HAD never in the PAST supported the Confederacy. Since it was questionable whether a true majority in many/most of the Confederate states COULD honestly swear such an oath, it would either force many to LIE or prevent (or significantly delay) their full return to the Union. (Of course, a scheme depending on many to lie could scarcely be stable!)

Answer 2

Define Wrong ? In the World of Politics there is no moral right or wrong merely haggling over the price. The price for the former Confederate States to rejoin the Union was the issue. Abraham Lincoln suggested that if 10 percent of a States Population took an Oath of Loyalty to the Union he would be satisfied. Senators Wade & Davis proposed that if 50 percent pledged loyalty to the Union than that was good enough. Neither plan was put into play because of Lincoln's assasination. After Lincoln's death, the Republican Congress decided they good get a lot more than a pledge of loyalty. They could milk the South for money. Cause that is what the US Congress & Federal Government has become, a way to milk the population for monetary. Like all liquids benefits trickle down and some get the cream most get the stream and others sip ^rine...

Links and snippets for you.....

http://www.icsd.k12.ny.us/highschool/pjordan/ushonors/Regents%20Review/Manifest%20Destiny%20to%20Reconstruct/reconstruction.html
""""Both Lincoln and Johnson supported lenient plans for Reconstruction.

10% Plan (Lincoln): Once ten percent of a southern state's 1860 voters had taken an oath of loyalty, the state could rejoin the Union."""

http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/publish/article_55.shtml
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Wade - Davis Bill
By Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis
Nov 23, 2006, 11:29pm

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At the end of the Civil War, this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and the readmittance of the Confederate states to the Union.

In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln and the Congress began to consider the question of how the Union would be reunited if the North won the Civil War. In December President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 percent of their male population took loyalty oaths and the states recognized the permanent freedom of slaves.

Several congressional Republicans thought Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan was too mild. A more stringent plan was proposed by Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis in February 1864. The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union. In addition, states were required to give blacks the right to vote.

Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill, but President Lincoln chose not to sign it, killing the bill with a pocket veto. Lincoln continued to advocate tolerance and speed in plans for the reconstruction of the Union in opposition to the Congress. After Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, however, the Congress had the upper hand in shaping Federal policy toward the defeated South and imposed the harsher reconstruction requirements first advocated in the Wade-Davis Bill."""


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Answer 3

If you further expound just what exactly the "10 Percent Plan" and the "Wade Davis Plan" were, and just what civil war you are referring to - I am sure you will get more answers.

Did you notice how I used capitals in my answer?