HIST315 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 - The Impact of the War Excellent notes on the end of the civil war. Very detailed and elaborate!!!
16 Oct 2011
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Lecture 10 the impact of the war: becoming a nation: the assassination of lincoln. The strange dream of abraham lincoln, early april 1865. Tragedy on good friday: john wilkes booth murders president lincoln at ford"s theatre (april 14, 1865). Lincoln was pronounced dead the following morning, after booth shot him with a. A time of mourning: the days after abraham lincoln"s assassination. Train reaches springfield, illinois, and is buried at a cemetery. The south after the civil war: a melancholy sight . South was destroyed: animals lying in pits, cities destroyed, and farms burned down, earth was blackened, and stench from dead animals lay in ruins. Demanding job was to figure out how to reconstruct the ruined south of the united. States to once again become a unified nation. Slaves continued to work on the land, dealt with their freedom in different ways, some were furious and confronts their owners full of anger.
