How did Lincoln's assassination affect the South during the Reconstruction?

It hurt the South.
It helped the South.
It did not affect the South.

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How did Lincoln's assassination affect the South during the Reconstruction?

It hurt the South.
It helped the South.
It did not affect the South.

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It hurt the South.

Explanation: Lincoln’s assassination removed the moderate, lenient plan for Reconstruction he favored. His death and the weak presidency that followed (Andrew Johnson) helped provoke a backlash in Congress: Radical Republicans took control and imposed harsher Reconstruction measures (Military Reconstruction Acts, congressional oversight, and conditions for readmission), plus the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and restrictions on former Confederates’ political power. The result was military occupation, loss of elite Southern political control, and social and economic upheaval in the South.

How did Lincoln's assassination affect the South during the Reconstruction?

It hurt the South.
It helped the South.
It did not affect the South.

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How did Lincoln's assassination affect the South during the Reconstruction? It hurt the South. It helped the South. It did not affect the South.

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