Was Abraham Lincoln's assassination a long term cause to the failure of Reconstruction?

After Lincoln's assassination, why did Reconstruction fail? I was thinking it was because of the weak leadership after Lincoln.





I'm also looking for long term causes to the failure of Reconstruction.|||Largely, yes.





While Andrew Johnson tried to implement Lincoln's plan for reconstruction, he wasn't Lincoln, who had been considered a hero for being the President during the Civil War. Distrust of Johnson by the Congress, and the inability of Johnson to inspire any support insured that the government would be split over how to do reconstruction and insured that the south would be resentful of everything.





If Lincoln had survived, it would have been unlikely that the Congress could have become as "radical" as it did. Lincoln would have been able to persuade them to accept his plan, probably because Lincoln would have likely supported giving basic civil rights to the emancipated slaves. With a united government, the reconstruction effort might have been more successful as there would be no infighting and it could focus on reconstruction.





Would much have really changed? Maybe, maybe not, but a lot of what is perceived to be the problems of reconstruction would have been avoided.|||Lincoln's assassination actually at first helped establish his famous 10% plan to restore the seceding states to the Union. However with the fall elections producing a tremendous amount of anomosity and resentment , the idea of forgive and forget was by no means an objective of the Radical Republicans who desired to punish the South severely. By means of such treatment it only enabled the institution of organizations and societies that would not only cause more animosity and distrust between North and South it damage Reconstruction main objectives . The idea of freedom for blacks was nearly annulled because of sharecropper tactics and worthless and wretched carpetbaggers and scalawags . When Reconstruction was working the Grant administration was so corrupt that it took all the steam of reform for the South and when the election of 1876 was as controversial as any election besides 2000 .. With the Compromise of 1877 it became the culmination of a weak enterprising effort to restore the south and put the kabosh on any effort for civil rights for years to come and all over a President who only served 4 years and would eliminate any hope of a successful Reconstruction.|||after the assassination of Abe Lincoln reconstruction was ultimately a lost cause. 75% of southern whites were against reconstruction and Lincoln. Johnson the follower of Lincoln, was to lenient towards the South to follow threw with reconstruction. Johnson had a tendency to not consult congress with his acts and was impeached but not removed from office. Johnson made no great attempts with reconstruction yet reconstruction cannot be looked at as a complete failure. During reconstruction, with nearly 4million freed slaves blacks gained their independent church along with rights to education, own their land|||My opinion is that part of the hardship of reconstruction was that southerners were accustomed to having free labor, they didn't trust northerners, and many of their young, able bodied men were either killed or injured because of the war.