What was the greatest effect of Lincoln's death/assination? (:
2007-03-25 14:36:19 · 8 answers · asked by Love. 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
well during his life he accomplished many great things....he abolished slavery for example...and issued the Emancipation Proclamation...but hmmm...People would stop already trying to kill him...yeah I mean it...there were several attempts on Lincolns life one which was a plan to blow up part of the white house.....so something greater didn't get lost like the White House!
2007-03-25 14:41:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
An excellent question. President Abraham Lincoln was a skillful politician. He was a Republican, who could work with moderates, such as Sec. of State William Seward, and Radicals, for example, Senator Charles Sumner.
Unfortunately for the United States a loyal DEMOCRAT, Andrew Johnson was chosen to be Lincoln's running mate.in 1864. I have read Johnson's speeches when he was in the Senate, he was a very combative, impractical person. He was from Tennessee. Johnson ran on a Union Party, which never expected Lincoln would be dead and not be in command. Unlike Lincoln when it actually came Reconstruction Johnson wanted to make no requirements of the Southern states. He had no wish to help, protect ex-slaves. He wanted to run Reconstruction completely without the Congress.
President Lincoln's death is tragic from both the personal and political point of view. As a skillful politician he would have made some requirements of Southerners to appease the Radicals, and given the Radicals some input. Johnson lack of political skill and complete neglect of freedmen caused Reconstruction to a bitter protracted process, it would not have been under President Lincoln. Johnson had no sensitivity to the fact that he was a Democratic Southerner as president, following a martyred president.
2007-03-25 16:04:23 · answer #2 · answered by Rev. Dr. Glen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The greatest effect would be the way the south was treated after the war. Lincoln was going to let them back in with ease and with minimal pain. As a result of his death relations were strained and southerners were treated like second class citizens for a while. They were looked down upon even though many were not slave owners. So basically Booth screwed over who he thought of as "his people". Lincoln was a great man and looked as the south more like disgruntled brothers than the enemy.
2007-03-25 14:54:55 · answer #3 · answered by jbd89 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it drove an uproar towards reconstruction, because someone killed him, many citizens were patriotic and tried to unify the country after the civil war; to finish lincoln's dream. lincoln's assination proved that the country was still seperated so people put a great deal into reconstruction.
2007-03-25 14:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by it's raining out 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think it would be that the reconstruction of the South was now in the hands of his predecessor, Andrew Johnson. Who knows how the South would have been different if Lincoln was still President.
2007-03-25 14:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by dawnsdad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Rev. got it right, except for the whole dem/repub rant.. Who represent the north now? not repubs. Anyways Johnson was a horrible man and allowed the south to get away easily. This is why they were able to make jim crow laws and keep blacks from voting until the1960's. Also i don't think that anywhere or time would have allowed defeated rebels to raise their defeated banneer, but still to this day we allow it. All thanks to Lincoln being killed.
2007-03-25 19:14:44 · answer #6 · answered by the 2nd woody 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
people started to like him
2007-03-25 14:38:48 · answer #7 · answered by north h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the dry cleaning bill, brain is NOT easy to get out
2007-03-25 14:39:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋