Think about and Discuss

Did you ever have a fight with a friend or sibling?

How did you make up?North

South

How should the North & South make

up?

Reconstruction

Re building

What?

trustlives

LAND

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ReconstructionProblems after the war

How to re-admit Southern States

Punish? Who?

What to do with former slaves?

Destroyed Land in South

Make a list of Solutions

Different Plans to RebuildLincoln Republicans in Congress Johnson

• Pardons for ex-Confederates who took an oath – Not former officers or government

• New Constitutions• 10% of voters take an

oath• African Americans did

not get the right to vote

• Land distributed to freed slaves

• African American men right to vote

• ½ voters in the state to take loyalty oath

• Pardons for ex-Confederates who swore allegiance – including officers and government

• New Constitutions• 13th Amendment

Lincoln & Johnson did not want to punish the South

Right side

Lincoln’s death

• April 14, 1865• Ford’s Theatre • John Wilkes Booth• Gunshot to the head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qAeFjCscRY

http://www.history.com/topics/john-wilkes-booth/interactives/john-wilkes-booth-timeline-and-map

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http://www.history.com/videos/lincoln-the-diary-of-john-wilkes-booth#lincoln-the-diary-of-john-wilkes-booth

Homework– write three complete sentences on what Lincoln should be remembered for. Draw an emoticon showing how Northerners, Southerners and you feel about the assassination.

Left side