The correct answer is:
After the Civil War, Congress wanted to penalize the South heavily for starting the war.
Reconstruction had two congressional factions. In one hand, the preponderant group of moderate Republicans who supported Lincoln’s view that the Confederate states should be reintegrated as soon as possible. On the other hand, the minority group of Radical Republicans who clearly refused Lincoln’s plan. They aspired to make a profound transformation in the south and grant the freed slaves full citizenship before the states were restored.