D is the appropriate answer to your inquisitive question. Thank you for having the courage to ask and never give up!
Because he wanted to take away their only way of making a living, by abolishing slavery and freeing their free labor force. Also some Southerners despised Lincoln because the thought he was not tough enough to lead or "Great Country"
Answer: Reconstruction
Explanation:
Reconstruction, in U.S. history, the period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states.