A person is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
The three primary reasons are <em>the requirements for Confederate states to reenter the Union; overseeing the rebuilding of a Southern economic infrastructure; the fate of millions of freed slaves.</em> These were the main issues and hot topics of American Civil War during that time.
