What was the significance of Abraham Lincoln's death?

Answer 1

The significance of President Lincoln's assassination cannot be overstated. It had a profound affect on the reconstruction on the Southern States that were part of the Confederacy.

It was made clear in Lincoln's second inaugural address in March of 1865 that he believed the entire nation was responsible for the Civil War. He also reminded the nation that the slavery issue was not an 1820 or 1850 Missouri Compromise issue. He (including himself ) had been tolerant of slavery since the beginning of the Republic.

With the said, it's clear to many if not most of American historians that Lincoln favored a "healing process" in bringing back the rebel States into the Union. Not the severe radical republican method that in so many words was a revengeful peace.

Without the power of a most intelligent and compassionate head of state such as Lincoln was, there was no substitute for his own guidance & courage to contain the radical republicans from foolish measures that would wound an open sore even more.

Even after his 2nd term would have been over, he would have been there as leader of the Republican Party & set it on a better course than it went without him.

Answer 2

The assassin, John Wilkes Booth did not agree with Lincoln's plan on ending the slaves, so in Ford's Theatre, Booth snuck on Lincoln, and shot him. I am very interested in Lincoln's Assassination.

Answer 3

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