Match each viewpoint about the legal status of the South to President Abraham Lincoln or to Congress.

President Abraham Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan was designed to reintegrate Southern states into the Union quickly and without retaliation. A new government could be formed if 10% of a state's voters swore an oath of allegiance to the United States. They could join the Union once their state constitution abolished slavery.

this act gave the federal government the power to relocate any native in the east to territory west of the mississippi river.