Read the excerpt from President Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address. Then answer the question that follows. "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

How was Lincoln's Reconstruction plan shaped by the beliefs expressed in this excerpt?

Group of answer choices

A. It focused on readmitting Southern states and restoring the Union.

B. It focused on protecting freedmen and freedwomen living in the South.

C. It focused on punishing Southern states for leading the nation into a war.

D. It focused on arresting and prosecuting white supremacists in the South.