Last Friday we spent the class learning about... THE ASSASSINATION... of our beloved Abraham Lincoln. The event, organized and executed by John Wilks Booth, one of the great actors of his time. His original plan was to kidnap Lincoln, believing they could exchange him for Confederate prisoners of War or end the war entirely. As the war ended before they could execute their plan. Oppertunity arose when the President and his wife enjoyed a night out at the Ford Theater, observing the English play, "Our American Cousin." After killing the President and escaping, he took with him the south's only hope for an easy ride back into the Union. Wilks was captured two weeks later, on the run, trying to get deeper south.
Today, we spent the period in the computer lab learning about the time period after the Civil War. Southerners were extremely resentful and angry, and channeled that anger onto the African-Americans, who they believed were the source of all their troubles. To do this they started producing laws reffered to as "Black Codes" restricting blacks freedoms, such as their right to property, live in certain areas, carry firearms, and ublically assemble. This was only the begining to a long and violent road.
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