Question

Which does NOT accurately describe President Abraham Lincoln's beliefs about Reconstruction at the end of the Civil War?

A. The whole country needed to rebuild and move forward.
B. The South should pay for the damage it caused.
C. Both Northerners and Southerners had suffered enough.
D. The postwar period should be a time of healing.

Answer 1

B. The South should pay for the damage it caused.

Step-by-step explanation:

Lincoln’s believed that Reconstruction should be based on forgiveness, because of that, he issued the Ten-Percent Plan, which determined that a southern state would be readmitted into the Union once the 10% of its voters swore the Oath of Allegiance to the Union.

Answer 2

The correct answer is B. President Lincoln didn't believe that the South should pay for the damage it caused.

Step-by-step explanation:

In anticipation of the end of the war, President Lincoln launched a moderate reconstruction that sought to reunify the country quickly through a generous policy of reconciliation amidst a persistent and bitter division. He was determined to take a course that would not permanently alienate the former Confederate states, but that would include them as part of the new national order, avoiding grudges and revenge against the South.