worst case: Lincoln assassination

what if April 14 1865 it wasn't just Lincoln who got killed but also Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, William H. Seward and Assistant Secretary of State Frederick W. Seward who die or are fatally wounded during that friday night

what happens now?
 
Radical Republicans begin to grow more power..... Reconstruction is a lot harsher. Insurrection in the south against Union occupation. Another round of violence possibly more rebellions and the like.
 
Lee, Davis, etc. executed for their leadership of the rebellion, anyone suspected of being involved in the assinations executed or imprisoned for life, plus a much harsher reconstruction. Was Wade President pro tempore of the Senate in 1865?
 
The term "harsh" in relation to the Congressional reconstruction tends to come from people who disliked giving human, political and civil rights to former slaves.

Under the law as it then was there would have been a Presidential election in the fall of 1865. A radical repbulican would probably have won.

It is possible that there would have been wholesale confiscation of land from the people who benefited from one of Americas' worst human rights abuses and started a treasonous rebellion which caused such destruction.

It is possible that by 1900 the US would have become the Global model for multi racial democracy,
 
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