1. Today’s Questions
How, where, when, and why was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
What happened to Lincoln’s assassin and his conspirators?
How did Lincoln’s death affect the US and Reconstruction?

2. The Effects of Lincoln’s Assassination

3. What was in Lincoln’s Pockets

5. 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

6. Reactions O Captain! My Captain!
What event(s) in American history is this poem about?
Who is the Captain?
What does the ship represent?
What is the fearful trip?
What is the prize sought for?

7. Trial of Conspirators Special military commission
Listen to evidence and determine punishment for each conspirator
Death by hanging
Hard Labor (Life) in Prison

8. Charges
George Atzerodt – conspiracy (in charge of killing Vice President Andrew Johnson)
Lewis Powell - conspiracy and the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William Seward

9. Charges
David Herold - conspiracy, guiding Paine to Seward's home, and assisting Booth during his 12 days on the run after the assassination
Mary Surratt - conspiracy, "keeping the nest that hatched the egg," and running errands for Booth that helped him escape

10. Charges Ned Spangler - helping Booth escape from Ford's Theatre
Dr. Samuel Mudd - conspiracy and aiding the semi-crippled assassin during his escape

11. Charges Sam Arnold - conspiracy to kidnap President Lincoln
Michael O'Laughlen - conspiracy to kidnap President Lincoln

12. “To be hanged by the neck until he [or she] be dead”
George Azerodt
Lewis Powell
David Herold
Mary Surratt
Ned Spangler
Dr. Samuel Mudd
Sam Arnold
Michael O’Laughlen

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

14. July 7, 1865

15. July 7, 1865

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

17. The Lincoln Special
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.
Officials of Richmond, Indiana, estimated its mourners at 15,000
a number greater than the city's population
at 3:15 AM!

18. 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

19. 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.