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Lincoln wanted to heal the nation and make it whole again
Civil War was by far the deadliest in American history (still is today)
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TOTAL DEAD 620,000
Union dead 360,000
Confederate dead 260,000
In addition – 270,000 Union soldiers and 260,000 Confederate soldiers were wounded
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Almost 10% of the population served in the war – a total of 3 million men
(if same % of the population served today we would have an army of 25 million men)
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War had high economic cost for both sides
Combined the North and South had spent 5 times what the government had spent in the previous 80 years
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War cost in 1865:$6,000,000,0006 Billion dollars
War cost in 2005:$7,206,660,841,8457 Trillion dollarsToday that would be $24,000 per United States citizen
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Millions of slaves were freed as a result of the war
13th AMENDMENT was passed in 1865 to officially end slavery and make it illegal in the United States
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Lincoln is assassinated watching a play at Ford’s Theater, 5 days after the surrender
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LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION
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GUN USED IN LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION
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FORD’S THEATER
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FORD’S THEATER
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JOHN WILKES BOOTH assassinated President Lincoln and at the first escaped but was later caught
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Lincoln was the first United States president to be assassinated
The nation was in a state of shock
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The size of the government grew after the war
Industry begins to replace agriculture as the nation’s major economic activity
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South is badly damaged – lost nearly 40% of livestock and 50% of farm machinery
Railroad tracks gone, factories are destroyed
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Before the war the South had 30% of the nation’s wealth – after the war only 12%
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