Timelinks G5 Lesson Plan, President Lincoln is Shot, page 278

 Timelinks G5 Lesson Plan, President Lincoln is Shot 

We studied the battles of the Civil War, General Sherman's steam rolling through the South, and the war ended at Appotmattox Court House in Virginia. The terms were generous, the soldiers could keep their homes and horses.  

But then there was an event that struck the newly United States: Read on page 278. 

For the text, go to this link: Timelinks Grade 5 

For even more information go here: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln#:~:text=Abraham%20Lincoln%2C%20the%2016th%20president,22%20am%2C%20in%20the%20Petersen

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lincolns-missing-bodyguard-12932069/#:~:text=Only%20one%20man%2C%20an%20unreliable,situation%20wasn't%20that%20unusual.

https://www.vox.com/2015/4/15/8414239/abraham-lincoln-death

The famous Poet Whal Whitman wrote this poem about Lincoln: 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45474/o-captain-my-captain

Questions:

Who was John Wilkes Booth?  What was his profession?  

What did John Wilkes Booth originally want to to do? 

Who did he recuit to help him? 

What security like was at the theatre? 

Which side did he support, the North or the South, Why? 

What did Lincoln dream ealier that month? 

Where did Lincoln die, when? 

What were the reactions to Lincoln's death? 

How did the Southern Whites feel about it? Southern Blacks?