Multiple choice

In the Ten Percent Plan, what must a state agree to when adopting a new constitution?

  1. They had to accept slavery.

  2. They had to ban slavery.

  3. They had to agree to wage war.

  4. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Under Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, Southern states seeking readmission to the Union had to draft new state constitutions that officially banned slavery. This requirement aligned with the Union's wartime goal of emancipation. Other options, such as accepting slavery or agreeing to wage war, contradict the fundamental terms of Reconstruction.

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