Why was abraham lincoln's assassination bad for the south

Some people in the north thought of all the south as barbaric. Also he wanted only for a unified america to emerge. It was also bad for the south because a new civil war almost arose.

Why was Abraham Lincoln killed?On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth became the first person to assassinate an American president when he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford's Theater in Washington. ... A Marylander by birth, Booth was an open Confederate sympathizer during the war.
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