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How did President Lincoln’s death affect the process of Reconstruction?

was one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the U.S. after the Civil War. As a result, new state governments formed across the South and enacted “black codes.” These restrictive measures were designed to repress the recently freed slave population

Explanation:

It slowed it and had a huge negative affect. After his death, the choice of reconstruction was up to two candidates with very opposing views, who didn't have enough time to decide what they wanted to do. It made the whole process extremely rushed.

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b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do