Which reconstruction plan did president lincoln favor at the of the civil war

How might the first nations have reacted when they saw that the europeans were moving onto their lands and disrupting their way of life? (this was when the europeans came to canada and tried to claim land to themselves)

This is the belief that a nation must develop and maintain a strong military force in order to pursue and defend its national interests.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is