what would've happened if Abraham Lincoln wasn't assassinated?

Question

opinion

Answer 1

No one knows. History is a one-way street. Nevertheless, I think Lincoln would have taken the southern states back into the Union as quickly and painlessly as possible, disenfranchising only the top leaders, not everyone who bore arms in the conflict. That would have meant no Reconstruction, no lingering animosity between North and South, no Ku Klux Klan, etc. To say history would have been quite different would be an understatement.

Answer 2

No one can really answer this question with any degree of certainty, but the course of events that contributed to the South's defeat would have remained the same. Had Lincoln been alive I do not think that the South would have been treated as harshly under Reconstruction as it was. Had the South been treated more graciously there may not have been such a harsh reaction, like the Jim Crow laws and segregation. People may have learned to start getting along with each other sooner.

Answer 3

1. the idolization of Lincoln would have been definitely lessened
2. it is doubtful that his Reconstruction policies would have passed through without some of the touches of the Radical Republicans
3. Lincoln probably would have an average second term and would have had to rebuild the infrastructure and carry out more economic policies for rebuilding the nation's economy.

Answer 4

So many things could've happened. But one thing is that we wouldn't think as highly of him. He died as a martyr; if he had continued on, I doubt he would be so highly appreciated.