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    The Nation’s Reconstruction

    Feb 01, 2023 3 minutes
    Reconstruction is the period from 1865 to 1877 when the Confederate states were controlled by the federal government before being readmitted to the Union. Lenient means merciful or not harsh. Legislation is proposed laws.

    Well before the Civil War ended in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln began to consider how the Confederate states should be received back into the Union. Conceived in 1863, his plan for Reconstruction was remarkably lenient.

    Lincoln proposed to readmit any Confederate state in which 10 percent of the voters signed an oath of loyalty to the United States. He offered a full pardon to all Southerners except Confederate

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