https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2019-12-10 17:33:26 UTC 2024-03-20 05:49:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f985.png 387902 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422305550 Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. (Wikipedia).He also helped free southern slaves with the Emancipation proclamation and turned some of them into soldiers.]]> 2019-12-10 17:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422305550 387902 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422312469 His command was responsible for the massacre of African American Union troops stationed at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in April 1864, and he served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the early years of Reconstruction.]]> 2019-12-10 17:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422312469 387902 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422328037 John Wilkes Booth was an American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. He was a member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and a well-known actor in his own right. (Wikipedia).]]> 2019-12-10 18:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422328037 387902 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422332123 The Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) proved to be the deciding battle in the Civil War campaign waged between Union and Confederate armies in northern Virginia in 1862. As a large Union force commanded by John Pope waited for George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac in anticipation of a combined offensive, Confederate General Robert E. Lee decided to strike first. Lee sent half of his Army of Northern Virginia to hit the Federal supply base at Manassas.]]> 2019-12-10 18:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422332123 387902 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422335106 The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.]]> 2019-12-10 18:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422335106 387902 https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422335780 Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. (History).]]> 2019-12-10 18:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ModestoCitySchools/d2vis4o6fm2r/wish/422335780