John Wilkes Booth's Influence On Reconstruction

During the late eighteen hundreds things were changing rapidly. Many states had left the Union and opinions about slavery was dividing communities apart. One man called Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer from Kentucky was elected presidency in 1860, even though only had 40% of the popular vote as stated in www.history.com. When Lincoln was elected it caused some southern states to leave the Union and form their own nation. John Wilkes Boothe was one of the many haters of Lincoln. Boothe was violently a pro-Confederate who “believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South” (Christopher Hammer,1). John Wilkes Booth was from a decently paid family, his father and brother were well known and well paid actors, even Boothe was destined to be like his father and brother. Booth's original plan was to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for the captured Confederate soldiers with his team made of former schoolmates, Confederate operatives and Southern sympathizers . After a …show more content…
John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln, who had a major role in reconstruction. It was Lincoln who was going to repair the U.S. and he was one of the only men that could abolish slavery. Since Booth killed this man Reconstruction was practically over. Not only did Booth affect the Reconstruction, he impacted on the rebuilding of the nation.
As already stated Booth had a negative impact on Reconstruction, therefore he also took a sizeable position in the failure of rebuilding the nation. Booth’s plan aided the fail in rebuilding the nation due to the fact that he assassinated one could say the leader of the Reconstion. This event lead to multiple changes such as “ ...presidential security was very much increased to prevent a recurrence of such a devastating event”(Shuman, R. Baird,1). Security was risen to certify that an event like that wouldn’t