Amnesty And Reconstruction Dbq

Despite the inevitable conflict over Reconstruction, in December 1863 Lincoln announced the proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Ultimately allowing southern states rejoin the Union and then if a minimum ten percent of those who balloted during the 1860 election took the oath of allegiance to the Union and to accept emancipation. Lincoln did not target southerners to take the oath such as confederate officers and military officials. Those people would have to apply for a presidential pardon. Along with confederate military officials, african americans were excluded. Lincoln feared that if the fighting did not end, the north and the south would never reunite and his ten percent plan failed.Lincoln’s ten percent plan was only used to …show more content…
Hayes the three time governor of Ohio. While the democrats nominated Samuel J. Tilden a millionaire corporate lawyer from New York. Samuel Tilden outpolled Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes in the popular vote with also having had 184 electoral votes to Rutherford's 165, with 20 votes uncounted. Samuel Tilden had won the popular vote by small margin of 3 percent. However, the republicans controlled the electoral machinery in 3 of the irrecoverable southern states. The republicans threw out enough ballots belonging to the democrats to make Rutherford B. Hayes to clear winner of the election of 1876. When things were being sorted, both parties accused each other of fraud. Both parties did perform some action of fraud, the Republicans threw out ballots and the democrats did not allow freedmen to vote. Then on January 1877 congress created a special electoral commission with 7 republicans and democrats to decide who got the electoral votes. Hayes won 8 to 7, they began making negotiations that if Hayes won the election, he would have all military division be removed from the south, which became a part of the compromise of