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The assassination of Lincoln. His Vice-President Andrew Johnson of Tennessee had very different ideas about the treatment of ex-Confederates.
Ex-Confederates were treated fairly during Reconstruction. After the war ended, ex-Confederates who laid down their weapons were not persecuted or treated unfairly.
Ignoring Lincoln's wishes and imposing a harsh Reconstruction policy on the South caused resentment among the ex-Confederates.
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The Lost Cause
Scalawags or whigs
Abraham Lincoln did not have an ex wife he was only married to Mary Todd and stayed married to her until he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
The election of ex-Confederates to Congress in 1865
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Only the slaves that the Union armies were able to liberate physically during their campaigns. The Proclamation was not a law, and it could not be effective in the South, where Lincoln carried no authority. It also allowed slavery to continue in the Northern slave-states, so it was not even an abolitionist document. It just meant that if the North were to win the war, the ex-slaves obviously couldn't be returned to their ex-masters. Its most urgent purpose was to keep the British from helping the Confederates, as they could not afford to be seen fighting on the side of the slave-owners.
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