What effect on America did Abraham Lincoln assassination have?

Answer 1

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln had a big impact on the South. This even removed the buffer that was placed between radical abolitionists that were in the North and the political leaders that were in place in the south.

Answer 2

The assassination of Lincoln was obviously rejoiced by the Southerners and Copperheads at first, but they soon realized that he could have protected them. The North was looking for vengence and if Lincoln was alive he could have helped ensure nothing bad happened and that reconstruction progressed smoothly. Instead, the assassination delayed and hampered efforts to rebuild southern infrastructure destroyed by years of civil war, and prolonged their misery and suffering.

Answer 3

After Lincoln's assassination, relations between the North and South

worsened. The Northerners were now looking for revenge on the South, which was attempting Reconstruction and could not afford to finance another war.

Answer 4

The entire nation was in mourning. Thousands lined the tracks as his railway car passed going to Illinois. When Booth shot Lincoln he thought it would restart the war, make him a hero, and the south would be glad for the death of Lincoln. It was the opposite of what he expected. The south was just as upset as the north and Booth couldn't get help from anyone. Lincoln's body laid in state all along his route to Springfield and there were lines of people waiting to view his body. It took his body 25 days to reach Illinois.

Answer 5

The US was devastated by the assassination of President Lincoln in April of 1865. His death brought the Northern people together as never before due to the controversy of the US Civil War. The North was sorrowful and shocked. This act of revenge by the Southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, was meant to demoralize the North and strike fear into the hearts of the Republicans especially. Clear thinking people in the South, such a Robert E. Lee realized that with the post war reconstruction that was to come, Lee said that the death of Lincoln was not only sad from a personal point of view, but in a larger sense, a huge loss for the South. Lee and others knew that they would have received a "fair deal" from Lincoln. Now, the hated Radicals would make the South pay for the war in the worst way possible.

Answer 6

When Booth shot Lincoln he wrote in his diary that he thought it would restart the war. He couldn't have been more wrong. The nation was upset and as his train travelled from Washington to Springfield for burial the tracks were lined with people crying. It took his body 25 days to reach Springfield because it was laid in state capitals all along the route so people could pay their respects. As for Booth he found no help and was turned in to the Army for capture. As he ran out of the burning barn he was hiding in he was shot by a Sargent Corbin and killed.

Answer 7

Total shock and deep lament on both sides.

It had not been a Confederate plot, as some people in Washington wanted to claim.

Answer 8

The entire country mourned for him. His body was taken by train to Illinois and people cried as it went by them.

Answer 9

People were upset and waited to view his body or the train taking him home.

Answer 10

badly