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What might happen to the Union now that Lincoln is dead.

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The assassination of President Lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the U.S. after the Civil War. Lincoln never lived to enact this policy. He died the following morning on April 15, 1865. His successor Andrew Johnson assumed office and presided over Reconstruction

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With Lincoln Dead and the southern-sympathizing Jefferson Douglas taking office, civil unrest in congress and sore relations with the defeated south will be tested during the reconstruction era

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