10% Plan Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction 10% Plan Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction. To rejoin the Union 10% of the state’s population must take a loyalty oath.

Presidential Reconstruction President Andrew Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction. Amnesty was given to poor white southerners. Wealthy southerners need to write an apology. They were required to take a loyalty oath. The state had to ratify the 13th Amendment.

Radical Reconstruction Senator Thaddeus Stevens plan for Reconstruction. To be accepted back into the Union southern states had to ratify the 14th amendment. They had to write a new state constitution. They had to give the Freedmen the right to vote.

Amnesty The government officially forgives.

Black Codes New laws in southern states to control African Americans. Designed to restrict Freedmen’s opportunities to work where they wanted. The purpose of the codes to have whites remain superior.

Scalawags Southern whites who had opposed secession.

Carpetbaggers A name given by southerners to northern whites who went south to start businesses or purse political office after the war.