Reconstructing the Nation

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Reconstructing the Nation
Question 1
If Lincoln had survived the assassination, there was a great chance for him to be re-elected more times since he was willing to run and had the potential of making America great. The US would not have endured his weak successor, Andrew Johnson. Additionally, the US incredible corrupt terms may have also been eliminated if had survived the assassination (Seward1). Lincoln’s less punitive policies on reconstruction were to be allowed to the Southerners in regaining their voting rights (Holzer & Scholar 1). With Lincoln, all the imposed social reforms on the southerners on freeing slavery would have gone through easily.
In his campaign, he wanted more leniency to the South than the radical Republicans had done. If he had lived, it is clear that the radical reconstruction would have happened. This is because the Radicals Republicans were able to overpower President Johnson, but it would have been very hard to happen if someone strong and popular leader like Lincoln was alive (Aftershock 9min). Therefore, it means that Lincoln would have forgotten all his lenient way and implemented the Reconstruction process (Holzer & Scholar 1). He would have required summoning to summon his skills of persuasion in forging for the inaugural address he had previously addressed before his death. He was to bring the lasting peace among all the States, especially the hatred which existed in the south between the blacks and the white (Seward 1).

Had Lincoln survived the assassination, the Republican majority in the Congress would have been more reluctant in accepting Democratic southerners to occupy the pre-war seats which were predetermined by the whites only and enfranchised the southern blacks.
Conclusively, Lincoln had vowed to continue with the second American Revolution which was aimed at ending slavery and focused on promoting the civil rights of the Americans. His survival was of great importance to the US. Lincoln, not a radical Republican but he had seen the Reconstruction process as a great opportunity of helping the southerners in the sweeping social revolution. His survival was to help the US in achieving all the goals of Reconstruction.  

Works Cited
Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujqafFcAFds&feature=youtu.be
Holzer Harold & Scholar Lincoln. What if Abraham Lincoln had lived? Retrieved January 18th, 2018, from http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/06/politics/had-Abraham-Lincoln-lived-counterfactual/index.html
Seward H. William. A Bill to guarantee to certain States whose Governments have been usurped or overthrown a Republican Form of Government. Retrieved January 18th, 2018, from https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=37&page=transcript