lincoln assassination?

Question

pls what might have happened if lincoln lived positive and why?
how his reputation might have suffered if he did not
die-nagatively

Answer 1

With the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln looked toward a unified nation without further punishment to the Southern states. As a result of his death, reconstruction brought more misery to the already suffering. What would have happened had he lived? One must look at the consequences of reconstruction.

Outrages upon the ex-slaves in the South there were in plenty. Their sufferings were many. But white men, too, were victims of lawless violence, and in all portions of the North as well as in the late "rebel" states. Not a political campaign passed without the exchange of bullets, the breaking of skulls with sticks and stones, the firing of rival club-houses. Republican clubs marched the streets of Philadelphia, amid revolver shots and brickbats, to save the Negroes from the "rebel" savages in Alabama.... The project to make voters out of black men was not so much for their social elevation as for the further punishment of the Southern white people —for the capture of offices for Radical scamps and the entrenchment of the Radical party in power for a long time to come in the South and in the country at large."
Reaction by conservatives included the formation of violent secret societies, especially the Ku Klux Klan. Violence occurred in cities and in the countryside between white former Confederates, Republicans, African-Americans, representatives of the federal government, and Republican-organized armed Loyal Leagues.

Answer 2

If Lincoln had lived, he would have penalized the South much less than Andrew Johnson did. Reconstruction was handled poorly by Johnson as the South was severely punished for seceding from the Union. Lincoln primary motivation was to keep the Union together. He likely would have been less harsh on the South in order to begin the healing for the nation to stay together.

However, Reconstruction would not have been easy even if Lincoln was alive for it. His reputation might have suffered slightly had he presided over Reconstruction. There was no easy solution to getting white southerners to accept their new position in society.

Answer 3

if lincoln lived, he wouldve been assassinated anyway cuz a bunch of slave owners wouldve hunted him