Reconstruction Plan

After the end of the war the country was in ruin, cities were burned to the ground, farms and land were war ravaged, many slave owners lost money, and millions of slaves were free and had no where to go so the United States set out down the road of reconstruction. Lincolns plan was to get all the states back into the Union as quick as possible so as to prevent another rebellion and to keep their economy on tack, also to have the states just take an oath of allegiance and when 10% of the state had taken that oath they would rejoin the Union, and although they were back in the Union they were still placed under military rule/guard. Lincolns plan for a better faster reconstruction of American was working fine until his assassination by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. President Andrew Johnson, the president who took over after Lincoln, also approved of Lincolns decisions.