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)