Question

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care
for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may
achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
Available at Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
1. According to the excerpt above, how did President Lincoln hope to reconstruct the nation after the
Civil War?

Answer 1

Answer: remove confederate states from the process until 1/10 swore an oath of loyalty to the union only then would they be allowed back into the u.s

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Answer 2

Answer:

Lincoln wanted to end the war and rebuild the Union quickly; he wanted to treat the South as kindly as possible. That’s what “malice toward none and charity toward all” means. He also said that he wanted to “bind up the nation’s wounds,” meaning that he wanted the nation to heal from the war. Ten percent of voters was not a difficult requirement, so it would make it easy for the Southern states to rejoin the Union.

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