Question

How did Lincoln's assassination affect the reconstruction era qnd and how the south would be brought back in the union?

Answer 1

Before he was killed he was making many plans to bring the union together but since he was killed by a southern John Wilkes booth, people were enraged and this caused a little bit of a rage making it harder for the north to bring in the south into the union again( not 100% sure I am learning about this at the moment and reading a book about it , hope it helped

Answer 2

Simply put, Lincoln believed that the Confederacy should be peacefully brought back into the Union. Lincoln's​successor, Andrew Johnson, believed the exact opposite. Johnson believed that the South should be punished for what they did and, as a result, dealt much more harshly with the South then Lincoln intended. It then, of course, did not help matters that the man who shot Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, was a famous Southern actor. Someone that the South idolized became the enemy of a nation. Johnson, who, as I said, wanted to punish the South. Therefore, he used Booth as an excuse to go after the former Confederacy with the full force of his administration.