Reconstruction

He wanted to punish the Confederates.

He wanted to show forgiveness to Confederates.

He wanted to make it difficult for the south to rejoin.

They did not have the right to hold office.

They did not have the right to vote.

They sided with the Southern Democrats

They owned too much land.

Freedom Act.

Emancipation Act.

Slaveowners Act.

Fugitive Slave Act.

to preserve the Union.

to defeat Jefferson Davis.

to end slavery.

to compromise with the South about the expansion of slavery.

Jefferson Davis cut off supplies to the Union, shortening the war.

it showed the war was going to be harder to win than the Union thought.

it started the Civil War.

it ended the Civil War.