Blog 5

        After the Civil War, Lincoln had a Reconstruction plan containing several ideas and processes to "clean up." An idea he suggested was to grant amnesty to the south. Lincoln wanted peace and forgiveness now that the war was over. I think his idea of amnesty was very generous, unfortunately the south didn't agree. They took more offense to this because the whole reason they were fighting was to break away from the Union - not to become closer to them. I believe if the Union did not offer forgiveness to the Conferderate states then there would have been more conflict and chaos.