Summary of Class 1/25-1/28

On Friday in class, we spent the period talking about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The assassination was planned and accomplished by John Wilkes Booth, a well known actor of the time. His plan was not to kill Lincoln, but because he got a "good" opportunity  where Lincoln went to see a play, he thought he'd take advantage of it. We then listened to two songs that tied our lesson together. Today in class, we started talking more about after the Civil War or the Reconstruction period. We started with a worksheet where we compared different aspects from after the war, such as population. We then looked at a picture of the KKK holding a banner in which they were lynching two African Americans. After, we read another worksheet that talked about "Black Codes" and what they entitled to the blacks and why. After reading the "Black Codes", we then had to answer some questions about them.