How Might Reconstruction Have Been Different If Lincoln Had Not

question 35

Multiple Choice

How might Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated?

• A) African Americans might have gained political and economic rights sooner, since Lincoln was a strong supporter of equal rights for all Americans.
• B) Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan would not have developed in the South and African Americans would not have been violently attacked.
• C) Women would also have gained the right to vote, since Lincoln would have encouraged this in the Fifteenth Amendment.
• D) Lincoln would have refused to allow any former Confederates to participate in the Republican government.
• E) Since Lincoln favored more leniency toward the South, readmission of southern states might have happened more rapidly.

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