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?

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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?

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Kiara Davis · 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