How Might Reconstruction Have Been Different If Lincoln Had Not

Multiple Choice

How might Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated?

A) African Americans might have gained political and economic rights sooner, since Lincoln was a strong supporter of equal rights for all Americans.
B) Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan would not have developed in the South and African Americans would not have been violently attacked.
C) Women would also have gained the right to vote, since Lincoln would have encouraged this in the Fifteenth Amendment.
D) Lincoln would have refused to allow any former Confederates to participate in the Republican government.
E) Since Lincoln favored more leniency toward the South, readmission of southern states might have happened more rapidly.