HISTORY 144 QUIZ 1, 100% Accurate. Graded A+. VERIFIED.

HISTORY 144 QUIZ 1, 100% Accurate. Graded A+. VERIFIED. aftermaths and effects on civil war - -creation of a single unified country abolition of slavery Increased power of fed. gov't - killed the issue of states rights U.S. was now an industrialized nation A stronger sense of nationalism swept through country Land in the West was increasingly opened to settlement South was economically and physically devastated, the plantation system crippled...leading to Reconstruction (rebuilding the U.S.) - but a deep hatred of the North remained Lincolns Assasination - -April 14th 1865 Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd attended the play, 'Our American Cousin' at Ford's Theater not far from the White House. John Wilkes Booth, a pro-Confederate, pro-slavery, and white supremacist who was also actor, and one of the most famous men in America Booth made his way into Lincoln's box and shot the president in the back of the head Mary Suratt plotted the killing Andrew Johnson - -Became President after Lincoln's assassination bad president most racist president loyal to union but didnt think federal government could dictate terms of southern states