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?

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

The Effects of Lincoln’s Assassination

What was in Lincoln’s Pockets

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

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.

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

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,  15            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!        5       O the bleeding drops of red,          Where on the deck my Captain lies,            Fallen cold and dead. 

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

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

July 7, 1865

July 7, 1865

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

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

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.