Lincoln's Role In Ending The Civil War

Lincoln's plans were cut short when he was assassinated by John-Wilkes Booth in 1865. If Lincoln had not been assassinated, those plans would have carried through. He was the most influential and powerful president that had ever befallen our nation. He controlled the entirety of the power of the government for a long period, and with that power brought the nation together, ending the civil war. If Lincoln had lived, he would have had the remainder of a four-year term to work constructively with the Republican majorities that controlled both houses of Congress in creating the kinds of policies that would form the basis for consensus within the party. He may have continued his attempts to peacefully reintegrate the South into the Union without
severe action. If he had done so it can only be imagined what would be entailed. He may have maintained a small military force in the South and treat it as simply a part of the U.S. rather than split it into military districts like an invaded nation. He may have simply allowed the Southerners to return to their plantations without first separating loyalists and rebels. He could have provided more benefits for former slaves to prevent them from being forced to go back to working for their former masters for little wages. He just might have made it a severe offense to discriminate against former slaves. In my opinion, there was a very good chance that if Lincoln had lived, the civil rights revolution of the 1960s could have happened a hundred years earlier.