FINALLY TEACHING!!!!

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Congrats Matt! I wish you the best.What a great topic for you to make your mark. Take it from me, there are tons of people on this site for you to go to. Everyone here is very knowledgeable, and extremely kind.

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(08-17-2013 03:43 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Congratualtions Matt!

As for the Lincoln Assassination, for me it's hard to pin it down. I certainly enjoy learning more. Lincoln as a person, fascinates me, how he kept rising to each new challenge, never giving up. The Civil War time period where our country almost died, the dedication and sacrafice of so many, then in one split second Booth's act changes everything again.

Personally, this site, and the people on it have been a blessing for me. I never expected that, so it's a double blessing

Gene, I've often wondered what the world would be like today had Lincoln never been assassinated. Would Radical Republicans have still pushed him aside and changed Lincoln's vision of a peaceful Reconstruction? A belief to not punish the South and mend all wounds. If Lincoln had lived would we have needed a Civil Rights movement 100 years later, like we had in the 60's? With a more peaceful and non oppressive Reconstruction would the 14th Amendment been respected and accepted much sooner? Had Lincoln lived, would there have been a need for such a great leader like Martin Luther King Jr to have emerged? I know there would still be a period for this country to adjust from all of the devastation, death, financial ruin, and governmental and social changes that came as an aftermath of the war; but would we be farther along than we are today? And how much could this country have acheived without 100 plus years of race discrimination, violence and race baiting to get in the way?