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Paul Mccrary's avatar

Lincoln's assassination did doom the US as it ended any meaningful Reconstruction

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Mark Linnen's avatar

Maybe a better way to say it would have been "any more than the assassinations of 4 presidents spelled the end of the United States."

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John_E's avatar

A bit hyperbolic as reconstruction did continue during the Grant presidency. It was the election fiasco after GrantтАЩs two terms that ended reconstruction.

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

Johnson kneecapped it and allowed the black codes to come into being.

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