RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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To tax the southern states as punishment for the war
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To help the southern states become a part of the Union again
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To keep the southern states from becoming powerful again
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To rebuild the industry of the northern states
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Detailed explanation-1: -Its main focus was on bringing the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and defining new relationships between African Americans and whites.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Lincoln’s original goal in the Civil War was to hold the nation together. And in this, the war and Reconstruction were a success. The Confederacy was destroyed for good, and every state that had seceded was readmitted to the Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Abraham Lincoln wanted to be lenient to the South and make it easy for southern states to rejoin the Union. He said that any southerner who took an oath to the Union would be given a pardon. He also said that if 10% of the voters in a state supported the Union, then a state could be readmitted.