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which statement best describes President Lincoln's view of the Reconstruction of South following the Civil War ​

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Lincoln believed that the South had never legally seceded from the United States, so he planned to forgive the South for the past. He issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in 1863 to announce his intention to reunite the once-united states.

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