BE PREPARED… Grab paper from the table Take out your Sherman Letter TODAY WE WILL… Analyze the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Analyze the assassination of Abraham Lincoln HOMEWORK: T.A.S.K. (periods 2, 4, and 8) – last day Thursday Study for Final
Lewis Powel (Paine) – ATTEMPTED TO KILL SEC. OF STATE SEWARD David Herold – AIDED IN ATTEMPTING TO KILL SEWARD John Wilkes Booth – KILLED LINCOLN Mary Surratt – MEN HELD MEETINGS IN HER BOARDING HOUSE George Atzerodt - SUPPOSED TO KILL VP JOHNSON The Conspirators who were killed
Ford’s Theater, Washington D.C. Booth’s Derringer
Trail of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold Garrett Farm where Booth was shot and killed
The execution of the conspirators
Lincoln’s body was transported from D.C. back to Illinois (retraced the route he took in 1861) Millions of people came out to pay their respects to Lincoln
WHITES WERE SUPERIOR RACIST SLAVES BORROWED A UNIFORM TO STAND GUARD BELIEVED HISTORY
DETAINED LAWMAKERS, CLOSED NEWSPAPERS, AND SUSPENDED HABEUS CORPUS (RIGHT TO A TRIAL) ARREST TYRANT CONSTITUTION HIS MOM
STAR 18 $ 1,000 HE HATED LINCOLN AND THE WAR “I WOULD RATHER HAVE THE APPLAUSE OF A N***** ” SPY
LINCOLN KIDNAP WITH OTHERS MURDER
LEE SURRENDERED TO GRANT THAT’S THE LAST SPEECH HE’LL MAKE FORD’S THEATER TYRANT KILL KILL VICE PRESIDENT (JOHNSON) AND SECRETARY OF STATE (SEWARD)
NOT GOOD BARRACADED THE DOOR AND SHOT LINCOLN IN THE HEAD 12 DAYS LEAPS OFF THE PRESIDENT’S BOX ONTO THE STAGE (SHOUTING “SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS”) CONFEDERACY WHITE
HE IS SHOT BY A FEDERAL SOLDIER WHILE IN THE BARN “I DIED FOR MY COUNTRY” THEY WERE HANGED (INCLUDING MARY SURRATT)