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When Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term he put the 10% plan into use. This plan allowed the south to come back into the union if 10% of its voters pledged an oath of allegiance back into the union. Soon after this plan was put into use, Lincoln is assassinated and President Johnson is sworn into office. He ultimately favored Lincoln’s 10% plan and freely let the south back into the economy. All the African Americans wanted was to have freedom and get paid for the work they did. Due to the fact they were not paid a lot of money, they could not support themselves economically. Since they couldn’t support themselves, the North enacted the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Freedmen’s Bureau ultimately educated freed black slaves so that they could have an education. Eventually, then Freedmen’s Bureau was abolished because of whites in the south that despised the African Americans greatly. Even though reconstruction tried to bring equal rights to the African Americans, it ultimately failed and they were actually had worse of a life then when they were in
