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Although Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction was not put into effect in the South after the Civil War, if it had been racism would have been almost completely avoided in the 20th century. Licoln's proposed plan was called the "10% Plan." It called for 10% of the people would voted in the 1860 Election to take a pledge of loyalty to the Union. This plan was met by harsh oppostion by the Radical Republicans in Congress who viewed the …

…way of starating the task of Reconstruction, it could not have singlehandedly stopped the inevitable Southern backlash regarding empancipation. Therefore, although the 10 percent plan would have more readily assissted in the transtition from slavery! to emancipation, it would have not been able to stop the formation of racist ideals or organizations. Even though we have racism today in almost the 21st century, it probably could be severely lessened had we used Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction.