Aftermath of the War

1. Aftermath of the War

2. Cost of War • Deadliest war in American history • 3,000,000 served • About 10% of the population • North and South combined spent more than 5 times the amount spent in the previous 8 DECADES

3. Constitutional Amendment • The Union Army marched through the South and released slaves • The officers read the Emancipation Proclamation at each plantation • Jan. 1865 – Lincoln urged Congress to end slavery • The 13th Amendment adopted in Dec.1865 • Ended slavery in America • By year’s end, 27 states (8 in the South) ratified it

4. Constitutional Amendment • December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed the amendment to have been adopted as of December 6, 1865, when Georgia's ratification brought the total number of ratifying states to 27 • Florida ratified it on December 28, 1865, New Jersey in 1866 • Texas in 1870 • Delaware in 1901, Kentucky in 1976 • Mississippi, whose legislature voted in 1995 to ratify, belatedly notified the Office of the Federal Register in February 2013 of that legislative action, completing the legal process for the state

5. Lincoln Assassinated Lincoln was shot 5 days after the surrender While watching a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot by a Confederate supporter, John Wilkes Booth Booth jumped onto the stage and escaped Broke his leg in the process As Booth ran across the stage he yelled: “Sic semper tyrannis!” Latin for “Thus always to tyrants”

6. Assassination plot • Sec. of State William Seward was stabbed, he later recovered • Vice Pres. Andrew Johnson was supposed to be assassinated • Booth was tracked and killed • The other conspirators were hanged or imprisoned

7. Aftermath • Lincoln died the next morning • The bullet could not be removed from his brain • First president to be assassinated • Vice Pres. Andrew Johnson was sworn in as President of the U.S. • pledged to continue Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction Funeral procession for President Lincoln Victory parade after the surrender