RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
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The South should be punished for its part in the war.
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The South should be treated with kindness and justice.
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The South should ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The South should pay for property damage caused by the war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which describes Abraham Lincoln’s approach to the South at the end of the Civil War? The South should be treated with kindness and justice.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -He says that war was inevitable because the positions were so opposed that compromise was impossible. He says that slavery was so evil that slaveholders needed to be punished by war against them.
Detailed explanation-4: -In practice, the term carpetbagger was often applied to any Northerners who were present in the South during the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877). The term is closely associated with “scalawag", a similarly pejorative word used to describe native white Southerners who supported the Republican Party-led Reconstruction.