Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Was Significant To US History

Abraham Lincoln's assassination was very significant to U.S. history. The reason his death was so significant, was because once he died the country went into a harsh period of racism and segregation from then on. On April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln officially died from a gunshot wound to the head. John Wilkes Booth shot him, since Abraham Lincoln’s main goal at the time was to free black people and give them equal rights, and John Wilkes Booth was a confederate man who was racist. Once he died, Andrew Johnson, the Vice President at the time, became president. He was given the task of reconstruction in the U.S., and all because of Abraham Lincoln’s death, the course of history was changed forever. There was a group of people called the “radical

But, once Vice President Andrew Johnson came along, he couldn't really get anything done and was racist. He was disliked by everyone, and was hard to make laws with because he was just too indecisive and didn’t know what to do. So, in result, the congress and the radical republicans basically were the ones that were relied on with law making. So, since most of congress was racist and unfair, since the majority of them were white and some were originally from the south, the laws weren't all fair. For example, the black codes were supposed to be fair to both southerners and black people, but it wasn't really all that fair for black people. The laws were made by the southern states to bring black people to the bottom of the social chain, and to make sure they weren't successful and that their jobs were bad. So, this for example is why racism and segregation continued in the south. It was because Andrew Johnson was a terrible president, and the congress didn't help much. This is why the civil rights movement took place many years later, because blacks still didn't get their full rights, that Abraham Lincoln probably would've