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Read this excerpt from President Lincoln’s second inaugural address:

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.

How does this excerpt show Lincoln’s attitude toward Reconstruction? Give two examples.

Answer 1

Lincoln had a Positive View on Reconstruction of the South.

Step-by-step explanation:

He says in the except "let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds," He wants the south to once again like the north to have a more unified Union. He wanted the south to rejoin the Union as quick as possible and once again be friends