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Position:Home>History> How would the reconstruction of the south be different if lincoln wasnt asasinatQuestion: How would the reconstruction of the south be different if lincoln wasnt asasinated!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: easier, quicker and with less lasting damage!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Lincoln had favored a more gentle approach to treating the South!. He thought that they had suffered enough and that the country should be reunited!. What happened after Lincoln's death could in many ways be called a punishment on the South!. The states that had seceded were not even allowed back in as states until they had satisfied the others!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A more realistic answer is to travel back in time to the days prior to the actual Lincoln assassination!. And try to prevent it yourself either by killing the gunman John Wilkes Booth or asking the help of others to do it!. That is, if people in Lincoln's time believe what you say, because they'll think you're a nut if you tell them you're from the future who came back into the past for a special humanitarian mission!. How in the hell did you know about the plan, they'll wonder!. Perhaps you're part of the political conspiracy to kill the president so then you end up in front of the firing squad!. How do you travel into the past!? You can ask former Project Mercury astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper!. He knows!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Lincoln would never have allowed the carpet-bag movement - he wanted to bring the south back in w/o animosity & w/o breaking their economy or pride!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Your homework, you do it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |