History

Yasmin Larsen

4 October, 09:55

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

A. Pres Lincoln's willingness to have federal government assume responsibility of the Confederate government's war debts.

B. Pres Lincoln's choice to have a Southerner as his vice pres in the 1864 election.

C. Pres Lincoln's decision that the southern state governments could reorganize after 10 percent of the voters took loyalty oath to the Union.

D. Pres Lincoln's decision to extend the Emancipation Proclamation to include all states.