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Why did the radical republicans reject the ten percent plan?

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They believed that african americans should be granted full citizenship.

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The reason why the radical republicans rejected the ten percent plan is because they wanted to punish the South more heavily--by forcing at least half of the entire Southern population to swear allegiance to the Union, among other things. 

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