Editing Reconstruction era (section)

===Lincoln's 10% plan===
{{Main|Ten percent plan}}
Lincoln was determined to effect a speedy restoration of the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War. In 1863, he proposed a moderate plan for the Reconstruction of the captured Confederate state of Louisiana. The plan granted amnesty to rebels who took an oath of loyalty to the Union. Black freedmen workers were tied to labor on plantations for one year at a pay rate of $10 a month.{{sfnp|Stauffer|2008|p=279}} Only 10% of the state's electorate had to take the loyalty oath in order for the state to be readmitted into the U.S. Congress. The state was required to abolish slavery in its new state constitution. Identical Reconstruction plans would be adopted in Arkansas and Tennessee. By December 1864, the Lincoln plan of Reconstruction had been enacted in Louisiana and the legislature sent two senators and five representatives to take their seats in Washington. However, Congress refused to count any of the votes from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, in essence rejecting Lincoln's moderate Reconstruction plan. Congress, at this time controlled by the Radicals, proposed the Wade–Davis Bill that required a majority of the state electorates to take the oath of loyalty to be admitted to Congress. Lincoln [[pocket veto]]ed the bill and the rift widened between the moderates, primarily concerned with preserving the Union and winning the war, and the Radicals, who wanted to effect a more complete change within Southern society.<ref name="Peterson 1995 pp. 38–41">{{Cite book |last=Peterson |first=Merrill D. |title=Lincoln in American Memory |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=9780195065701 |location=New York |pages=38–41}}</ref><ref name="McCarthy 1901 p. 76">{{Cite book |last=McCarthy |first=Charles H. |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56039 |title=Lincoln's plan of Reconstruction |publisher=McClure, Phillips and Co. |year=1901 |location=New York |pages=76 |oclc=4672039 |via=Project Gutenberg}}</ref> Frederick Douglass denounced Lincoln's 10% electorate plan as undemocratic since state admission and loyalty only depended on a minority vote.{{sfnp|Stauffer|2008|p=280}}