Question

How do you think reconstruction might have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated?

Answer 1

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Lincoln would have been fairly easy on the south. Reconstruction would have been smoother. It would still have been rough. Whites needed to be taught about the black man, many years people were the black race was inferior.

Answer 2

Answer:

Jane Turner Censer, professor of history at George Mason University, said:

“I always tell my students, the first step into the counterfactual can be fascinating, but the subsequent steps are likely to descend into fantasy, as contingencies and the interplay of events are lost.”

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