Question

Which of the following is a major example of Abraham Lincoln’s policy of leniency toward the defeated South?

• President Lincoln’s willingness to have the federal government assume responsibility of the Confederate government’s war debts
• President Lincoln’s choice to have a Southerner as his vice president in the 1864 election
• President Lincoln’s decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union
• President Lincoln’s decision to extend the Emancipation Proclamation to include all states

Answer 1

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President Lincoln's decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took a loyalty oath to the Union is the major example of his policy of leniency toward the defeated South.