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Rebuild (Radical reconstruction plan (Hoped to revolutionize southern…

- - - - all former leaders and officeholders of the confederacy were removed from office and lost the right to vote.
      - 2.Confederates with more than 20,000 in taxable property were also removed from office and lost the right to vote.
      - But the president had the power to pardon many of these southerners so many ended up escaping the disfranchisement and were back in office by 1865
- - - - Full presidential pardon to most confederates to those who took an oath of allegiance to the union and accepted the emancipation of slaves.
      - State government could be reestablished and accepted as legitimate by the US president as soon as at least 10 percent of the voters in that state took that oath
      - Each southern state had to rewrite constitution to remove slavery
      - Designed to shorten the war and give added weight to his emancipation proclamation.