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Ben []

This site talks about how Abraham Lincoln's death and how it affected Reconstruction. It says that if he hadn't died they say it would have gone a lot smoother and quicker.

Lincoln wanted to reunite the Union quickly by being lenient and by showing forgiveness to the Southern States. Most of the moderate Republicans in Congress were in support for Lincoln's plan as they see that his plan would make a more immediate end to the war.

The death of Lincoln had a great blow in the Reconstruction process.

Lincoln has the power of controlling these Radical Republicans had he still lived. There might be opposition from these Radical Republicans but they respected Lincoln as a statesman and reluctantly follows Lincoln's plan. Lincoln would have been able to control the Radical Republicans, at least that is the conventional wisdom. Lincoln's death, however, left a void in leadership.

Lincoln's death also affected people at the South greatly. The South felt that Lincoln was the most-moderate and kind-hearted of the men in power at the North and they believed that he, if any one could, would hold in check all the extreme measures and stand between them and all unnecessary severities.

On April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., Abraham Lincoln was shot by Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth. The assassination was part of a larger plot to eliminate the Northern government that also left Secretary of State [|William Seward] grievously injured. Lincoln died the following day, and with him the hope of reconstructing the nation without bitterness.

Didn't we just get over Reconstruction in History class Zak?

Hi Ben :) -Selina

Zak []

This site mentions the unity of a nation and how they kept going on after his death.

Ben http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.kyvl.org/src/detail?vid=13&sid=54a9ee91-31d5-4fa4-9c56-c22462c4e505%40sessionmgr4002&hid=4104&bdata=JnNpdGU9c3JjLWxpdmU%3d#db=ulh&AN=4113712

http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.kyvl.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=4113712&site=src-live

Im not sure which site to use for this, but one wil work

This site talks about the formation of the Secret Service and other assassination attempts on Lincoln.

"I could not believe that there was a plot to murder me," **Lincoln** subsequently said.

Even before those incidents, Allan Pinkerton had discovered an assassination plot. As he told it, "Early in the year 1861, I had perused the daily journals...but in common with others, I entertained no serious fears of an open rebellion, and was disposed to regard the whole matter as of trivial importance."

I think the secret service thing should be our main focus and maybe talk about how a presidents life and been saved because of them.

Ben []

Lincoln was able to control them and had proposed a plan for reconstruction that looked to treating the South more like a lost brother returning home.

Hey Ben you've posting great sites with a lot good information, sorry it took so long for me to get started, been having internet issues with the weather but I found this site with good information on the death of the president and the plot to kill more officials - Zak []

Here is a site that talks about the impact of Lincoln and his legacy on the nation and the presidency - Zak []

Ben http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.kyvl.org/src/detail?sid=723332b9-d90d-464c-a60f-c47793a0f321%40sessionmgr4001&vid=5&hid=4201&bdata=JnNpdGU9c3JjLWxpdmU%3d#db=ulh&AN=90288767

How a secret service agent saved President Reagan's life.

For saving the **president's** life, many thank the quick thinking of Parr, lead agent of the **president's** **Secret** **Service** detail, who diverted the presidential limo directly to the hospital.

1. Ending the Cold War: The Cold War had raged since World War II and communism‘s quest for world domination remained an existential threat to the United States when President Reagan took office. Reagan reversed the policy of detente and stood firm against the Soviet Union, calling it the Evil Empire and telling Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in Berlin. He was relentless in pushing his Strategic Defense Initiative and gave aid to rebels battling Soviet-backed Marxists from Nicaragua to Angola. Those efforts were critical in the ultimate collapse of the Soviet empire and essentially ended the Cold War.

Not all aspects of the cultural conflicts of the Cold War were negative. Despite being freed from slavery approximately 80 years before the end of WWII, blacks were still second class citizens in the South and discrimination was common in varying forms almost everywhere. While change for blacks and other minorities came slowly, it did eventually come. President Truman “noted that if the United States were to offer the ‘peoples of the world’ a ‘choice of freedom or enslavement’ it must ‘correct the remaining imperfections in our practice of democracy”

Gorbachev wasn't the only decisive presence. If Reagan hadn't been president—if Jimmy Carter or Walter Mondale had defeated him or if Reagan had died and George H.W. Bush taken his place—Gorbachev almost certainly would not have received the push or reinforcement that he needed. Those other politicians would have been [|too traditional], too cautious, to push such radical proposals (zero nukes //and// SDI) or to take Gorbachev's radicalism at face value.

Ben http://www.afb.org/blog.aspx?BlogID=7&BlogEntryID=887

I got this site off of Larry and Micheals site and research.

This is what they have wrote with it: -This shows that people still look up to Martin Luther King Jr. and his speech. -"Mentors are persons that you can learn from, and ask advice of when needed. I obviously cannot ask Martin Luther King, Jr. for advice, but I reflect on his message often."

We could go off of this saying that if Lincoln hadn't been assassinated that he would have finished reconstruction, and there would have been no need for king to give his 'I have a dream speech.

Ben http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

=14th Amendment=

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

We could use this information to show just how big of an impact Lincoln had on congress, so much in fact that, even after Johnson vetoed this amendment, congress overrode it and passed it.