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The Battle Lines Over Reconstruction
Congressional Republicans felt that Lincoln's 10% plan was insufficient to protect freed people in new state governments Senator Wade and fellow radical Republican Henry winter Davis began devising their own plan for Reconstruction. President Lincoln killed it with a so-called pocket veto. He refused to sign the bill into law Letting it languish on his desk. The impasse revealed the emerging battle lines over the purpose of Reconstruction for some Reconstruction meant reuniting the nation as quickly as possible For others it demanded nothing less than a radical overhaul of the southern economy and social systems.
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