How did Lincoln's assassination by John Wilkes Booth affect the South.?

Question:It stiffened the radical Republicans' efforts to punish the South for the Civil War.

President Andrew Johnson, who was from Tennessee, wanted to let the South into the Union on easy terms the way Lincoln did. But the Senate was out to get him and impeached him because he fired a member of his cabinet without getting prior Senate approval, which was the law of the land at that time (this law was later declared unconstitutional).

Ultimately, the policies of the radical Republicans added to the bitterness of the Southerners against the Northerners, and we haven't yet completely recovered from their bitter feelings yet.

I personally believe that it was a historical tragedy that the North won the Civil War. If there were three English-speaking in North American countries instead of two, Americans wouldn't have been powerful enough to pull all the rotten s.h.i.t we have pulled since World War II.

Our Iraq war is only the latest of many rotten things we have done abroad since then. Noam Chomsky believes that if we were to apply to ourselves the same laws we applied to the Nazis after World War II, then all our post-war presidents would have to be executed for war crimes.

Harleigh Kyson Jr.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It stiffened the radical Republicans' efforts to punish the South for the Civil War.

President Andrew Johnson, who was from Tennessee, wanted to let the South into the Union on easy terms the way Lincoln did. But the Senate was out to get him and impeached him because he fired a member of his cabinet without getting prior Senate approval, which was the law of the land at that time (this law was later declared unconstitutional).

Ultimately, the policies of the radical Republicans added to the bitterness of the Southerners against the Northerners, and we haven't yet completely recovered from their bitter feelings yet.

I personally believe that it was a historical tragedy that the North won the Civil War. If there were three English-speaking in North American countries instead of two, Americans wouldn't have been powerful enough to pull all the rotten s.h.i.t we have pulled since World War II.

Our Iraq war is only the latest of many rotten things we have done abroad since then. Noam Chomsky believes that if we were to apply to ourselves the same laws we applied to the Nazis after World War II, then all our post-war presidents would have to be executed for war crimes.

Harleigh Kyson Jr.

It affected the South's chance for a slow and steady rebuilding. His assassiantion caused a raucus among the Northerners and Southerners.

The South was pretty happy with Lincolon's assasination. It brought in the new president Andrew Johnson. Johnson (although he was trying to fulfill LINCOLN's plan of reconstruction) seemed too liberal in matters of reconstruction. People didn't know that it was Lincoln's idea, but when Johnson extended forgiveness to the South and welcomed them back to the Union with no punishment, the Radical Republicans were shocked. He was even impeached, but the South was happy with Johson.