Lincoln's assassination did doom the US as it ended any meaningful Reconstruction
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."
A bit hyperbolic as reconstruction did continue during the Grant presidency. It was the election fiasco after GrantтАЩs two terms that ended reconstruction.
Johnson kneecapped it and allowed the black codes to come into being.
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Lincoln's assassination did doom the US as it ended any meaningful Reconstruction
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."
A bit hyperbolic as reconstruction did continue during the Grant presidency. It was the election fiasco after GrantтАЩs two terms that ended reconstruction.
Johnson kneecapped it and allowed the black codes to come into being.