Question: What were the goals of reconstruction? There were a number of reasons given by the Northern States/ Federal government for reconstruction. What were these?

Answer: For victory in the war to be achieved, Northern moderate Republicans and Radical Republicans concurred that the Confederacy and its system of slavery had to be destroyed, and the possibility of either being revived had to be eliminated.
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