What what happened after Abraham lincolns death?

Answer 1

It caused additional anger against the southern states which resulted in more punitive action by northerners. Carpetbaggers ended up running the government in the south and caused even more severe hardships since they could no longer control their own destiny At the end of the Civil War two very different plans for reconstructing the nation were offered. Had Lincoln lived perhaps history would have different. The assassination of Lincoln, however, left the vulnerable Andrew Johnson, a Southerner and former slave owner with no college education, President. Could he live up to Lincoln's ideals? Would he be allowed the opportunity? That is the question. After the Civil War congress was controlled by a group called the "Radical Republicans." Lincoln was able to control them and had proposed a plan for reconstruction that looked to treating the South more like a lost brother returning home. Lincoln looked to reconstruction as a time of healing. The Radical Republicans, however, looked at reconstruction as an opportunity to teach the South a lesson and to punish them. In 1866 Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill which called for rather draconian Reconstruction measures. Lincoln vetoed the bill but thedebate raged. Lincoln would have been able to control the Radical Republicans, at least that is the conventional wisdom. Lincoln's death, however, left a void in leadership. The new President, Andrew Johnson, was a southerner. As you can imagine this bitter irony was not lost on the Radical Republicans who hated him even before he was President. Johnson proposed a plan similar to Lincoln's. Suffice it to say, congress was not amused. The relationship between Lincoln and Congress soured quickly. Immediately following the Civil War, Southern states passed numerous laws restricting the rights of Blacks. They were known as the "Black codes". Mississippi, for example, barred interracial marriages. The punishment for such an act was death. Another code restricted the area in which Blacks could live. For example, Blacks could not own or rent land outside of an incorporated town. The purpose of this code was to undermine the efforts of the federal government in giving forty acres of land to former slaves. Many large plantations in the South were confiscated or abandoned. Much of this land was parceled out to slaves in forty acre allotments. These actions by Southern states angered congress. Led by the "Radical Republicans", congress passed sweeping legislation during the Reconstruction years. Congressmen Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens led the fight and first passed an act to establish the Freedmen's Bureau. Its purpose was to provide education and training for Blacks in their transition from slavery to freedom. Despite the best efforts of President Andrew Johnson to stop all legislation assisting Blacks, several significant bills were passed. With martial law in force in the South, congress could do virtually anything it wanted to. The rebellious states could not vote on the measures before congress, and there were enough votes to override President Johnson's vetoes.

Answer 2

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NEW RESPONDENT

Lincoln assassination provoked in the North a wave of indignation and the raise of sentiment of vengeance towards the Confederates.

The Radical Republican took the upper hand in the Congress and in the government, making impossible to carry a policy of appeasement and help towards the defeated as wished by Lincoln.

Answer 3

His death shook up the entire nation. When Booth shot him he hoped that the war would restart and he wrote in his diary he was sure that the south make him a hero. The opposite happened concerning Booth and he soon found out that no one would help him nor was he considered a hero. Lincoln’s body was placed on train draped with a black flag and his picture ( you can see photos of the train online) and people stood waiting for the train to come by them. It would stop in major cities on it’s way to Springfield, Illinois where he was buried. It took 25 days for it to reach Springfield. In the meantime Booth was killed trying to escape from a barn in Virginia by Union troops who had hunted him down. The other conspirators were arrested and put on trial for the conspiracy to kill Lincoln. They were put on trial and hung.