Answer:
Different people and president Lincoln himself wanted to “mend” or ”reconstruct” the Union after the Civil War.
Explanation:
Reconstruction is the process of rebuilding the United States especially the Southern States where the physical destruction was tremendous after the Civil war.
President Lincoln felt that the Southern states should be treated with leniency.
He felt that the Southern states had never truly left the Union.
He wanted to mend the nation's wound rapidly and did not want to punish the South. but as you know sadly, Lincoln was assassinated before reconstruction.
Woodrow Wilson of America had been genuinely stunned by the savagery of WW1.
In America, there was a growing desire for the government to adopt a policy of isolation and leave Europe to its own devices. In failing health, Wilson wanted America to concentrate on itself and, despite developing the idea of a League of Nations, he wanted an American input into Europe to be kept to a minimum. He believed that Germany should be punished but in a way that would lead to European reconciliation as opposed to revenge.
Georges Clemenceau of France had one very simple belief - Germany should be brought to its knees so that she could never start a war again- also for revenge as Germany had attacked France a few times.
The British public was after revenge and Lloyd George's public image reflected this mood. "Hang the Kaiser" and "Make Germany Pay" were two very common calls in the era immediately after the end of the war and Lloyd George, looking for public support, echoed these views.
Communism is not about a redistribution of wealth. Communism argues that wealth is unequally distributed in the first place because capitalism is inherently unfair, and that redistributing wealth (by taking from rich people and giving to poor people) would never solve the problem in the long term. Communism therefore seeks to eliminate capitalism altogether by eliminating markets, by giving the government control of the means of production (like factories and farms), and by distributing goods (like food and gasoline) to people according to need. The goal is to eliminate economic classes by eliminating need, so that there's no need to redistribute wealth, since everyone would be in an equal condition of prosperity. In practice, however, this has never really worked out.
Indulgences - were sold for the forgiveness of sins. In the Middle Ages the Catholic Church abused this. The Protestant Reformation began because of this - led by Martin Luther. <span> </span>
