In Addition to Resulting in the President's Death, How Did

question 55

Multiple Choice

In addition to resulting in the president's death, how did Lincoln's assassination prove significant?

• A) It had been in response to Lincoln's passionate calls for a vengeful peace, and to honor his wishes, his supporters resolved to do everything in their power to violently retaliate against the South.
• B) It caused northerners to overwhelmingly reject the message of the Radical Republicans and to throw their support behind the conservative Republicans in large numbers.
• C) It ensured that economic policies designed to spur industrial development across the country would immediately go into effect in the weeks following Lincoln's death.
• D) It went largely unrecognized by much of the country because Americans were still distracted by the carnage of war, so Johnson went on to pursue only policies identical to Lincoln's.
• E) It resulted in an immense outpouring of grief across the country but decreased the possibility of a lenient federal Reconstruction of the Confederacy like Lincoln had envisioned.

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