In the middle of the war, what did Lincoln hope to accomplish with his Ten-Percent Plan of Reconstruction?
A) He wanted to weaken the cause of the radical abolitionists.
B) He wanted rich slaveowners to pay 10 percent of their family wealth to the federal government in return for amnesty.
C) He hoped 10 percent of the southern slaves would be freed automatically in all the Confederate states.
D) He sought to expand slavery in Mississippi and lessen it in Missouri.
E) He wanted to weaken the Confederacy and shorten the war.
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