AFTERMATH OF THE WAR. (USA)
The aftermath of the civil war (USA). Lincoln’s murder Abraham Lincoln , the 16thPresident of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He was shot in the head. T he assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government; beyond Lincoln's death, the plot failed. Abolition of slavery By the end of the American Revolution, slavery had proven unprofitable in the North and was dying out. Most Northerners did not doubt that black people were inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery. The Underground Railroad was organized to help slaves escape north to freedom. The outbreak of the Civil War forever changed the fut...