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Explain why Lincoln’s assassination put the future of the nation in question. In one sentence!

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Lincoln's assassination put the nation's future in question because it abruptly removed the principal leader and architect of a conciliatory Reconstruction—whose moral authority and political skill were crucial to heal sectional wounds, protect freedpeople, and steer the fragile postwar settlement—leaving a successor without Lincoln's stature, a hostile Congress, and deep southern resistance that threatened reunification and stability.