What was Lincoln's plan?

Answer 1

According to Sparknotes:

"President Lincoln seemed to favor self-Reconstruction by the states with little assistance from Washington. To appeal to poorer whites, he offered topardonall Confederates; to appeal to former plantation owners and southern aristocrats, he pledged to protect private property. Unlike Radical Republicans in Congress, Lincoln did not want to punish southerners or reorganize southern society. His actions indicate that he wanted Reconstruction to be a short process in which secessionist states could draft new constitutions as swiftly as possible so that the United States could exist as it had before. But historians can only speculate that Lincoln desired a swift reunification, for his assassination in 1865 cut his plans for Reconstruction short."

Answer 2

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction offered opportunities for states to rejoin the Union without punishment. The Radical Republicans at the time were unforgiving and sought immediate and harsh correction. Lincoln's plan came to a sudden end with his assassination in 1865, and his successor, Andrew Johnson, had a new and different plan.

Answer 3

During the American Civil War, the overall Union strategy turned out to consist of three main parts. In order to bring the South back into line, the Union intended to blockade its ports and starve it into submission, threaten and possibly take its capitol of Richmond (Virginia), and cut it in two along the line of the Mississippi River, which would then open up the Deep South to military invasion.

Answer 4

1) blockade the south, 2) control the Mississippi, 3) take control of Richmond