What if President Abrahama Lincoln wasn't assinated/What if no plot against him?

[GoodGame]

I've been thinking a little about how Reconstruction helped shape the US culture, and I've been wondering how much a variation would have been caused by either of the following PoDs:

1. Abraham Lincoln survies the assasination against him at the Ford Theatre, and recovers fully after a short convalesence.

2. There is not a plot to assasinate Abraham Lincoln by Southern sympathizers.


From a cursory reading of wikipedia, the successor, Andrew Johnson was probably a tad more liberal towards the South (and he was Southern himself) though Lincoln was moderate.

So I guess the main effects I'd wonder about would be how would Lincoln and Johnson differ immediately, and how would Lincoln presiding instead of Johnson have affected the succeeding presidencies, especially regarding Reconstruction? E.g Grant, the annual paramilitary revolts, the pace of Reconstruction, Hayes ending the Reconstruction (probably prematurely) leading to the rise of Jim Crow laws (basically a resurgence of unequality for african-americans in the South).

 

[Lord Baal]

Lincoln was solely interested in bringing the South back into the Union, not in punishing it like the "Radical Republicans." I also think Lincoln could have controlled the RR, whereas they already saw Johnson as their enemy. Other than that though, I don't really know much about the period. I can say that option #1 is more likely than #2 though.