After the Civil War congress was controlled by a group called the "Radical Republicans." Lincoln was able to control them and had proposed a plan for reconstruction that looked to treating the South more like a lost brother returning home. Lincoln looked to reconstruction as a time of healing. The Radical Republicans, however, looked at reconstruction as an opportunity to teach the South a lesson and to punish them. In 1866 Congress passed theWade-Davis Bill<span> which called for rather draconian Reconstruction measures. Lincoln vetoed the bill but thedebate raged.</span>
What characteristics do most fish have that are missing from jawless fish?
<span>Sectionalism
occurs when the local or regional interests of a geographic section of a
country overshadow national interests. As a historical term,
sectionalism is primarily used to represent north/south tensions leading
to the Civil War. Sectional differences did influence the formation of
the country through the compromises worked out when framing its
Constitution, especially the accommodation of slavery in order to
achieve national unity</span>
