1. Today’s Questions Why did JWB assassinate Abraham Lincoln?
How did Lincoln’s death affect the US?
What happened to Lincoln’s assassin & his conspirators?
What were 2 of Lincoln’s goals/desires for Reconstruction?

2. Adam Ferrara – Lincoln joke
April 1865 –
2:51-5:15
April 23

3. The Effects of Lincoln’s Assassination

4. What was in Lincoln’s Pockets

5. 50,000=$735,294 in 2015
25,000=$367, 647 in 2015

6. The Lincoln Special
Officials of Richmond, Indiana, estimated its mourners at 15,000
a number greater than the city's population
at 3:15 AM!
Lincoln's flag-draped coffin was borne slowly westward from Washington to Springfield where he was finally buried on May 4, three weeks after he was shot in Ford's theater. Along the way Lincoln's open casket was made available for public viewing in eleven different cities, including Baltimore, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Chicago, where it was viewed by more than one and a half million Americans. Lincoln's hearse or coffin had been looked upon by at least seven million mourners, counting those gathered in parades and city streets or alongside railroad tracks, a number representing more than a third of the population of the entire North.

7. Reactions
Lincoln was seen as a hero and martyr for the Union, liberty, and freedom
Religious comparisons
Moses
Christ (both killed on Good Friday)
Northerners united
Many wanted revenge and harsh punishments against the rebels
This was opposite of what Lincoln wanted
Few Southerners agreed with Booth’s views and actions

8. Reactions O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Who is the Captain?
What does the ship represent?
What is the “fearful trip”?
What is the prize sought for?
What event(s) in American history is this poem about?
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; 
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills; 10
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding; 
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; 
    Here Captain! dear father! 
      This arm beneath your head; 
        It is some dream that on the deck, 
           You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; 
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; 
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; 
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; 20
    Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! 
      But I, with mournful tread, 
        Walk the deck my Captain  lies, 
Fallen cold and dead.  
O CAPTAIN! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, 
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
    But O heart! heart! heart!       
      O the bleeding drops of red, 
        Where on the deck my Captain lies, 
          Fallen cold and dead. 

9. Trial of Conspirators Special military commission
Read the charges, listen to the evidence and determine punishment for each conspirator
Death by hanging
Hard Labor (Life) in Prison

11. “To be hanged by the neck until he [or she] be dead”
Lewis
Powell
(Paine or Payne)
George
Atzerodt
David
Herold
Mary
Suratt

12. July 7, 1865

13. July 7, 1865

14. died of yellow fever in prison September 1867
Hard Labor
Michael
O’Laughlen
died of yellow fever in prison September 1867
Sam
Arnold
Dr.
Samuel
Mudd
pardoned by Andrew Johnson in February 1869
Edman
“Ned”
Spangler

15. Mary Todd Lincoln 3 of her 4 sons died before age 19
Afraid of being poor and alone after President Lincoln died
Spent 4 months in mental asylum in 1875

16. Complete your circle map about Lincoln’s assassination by adding the new, important, and/or interesting information you have learned over the last two periods.