BE PREPARED… Grab paper from the table Take out your Sherman Letter

TODAY WE WILL… 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

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)