President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1965
President Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, a 26-year-old actor. The tragic moment occurred while he was at the theatre in Washington D.C., only five days after the Civil War ended. It seems that in some parts of the South, his death was celebrated.
Lincoln’s Vice President Andrew Johnson became president, but he struggled very hard to reunite the country after the war. During Reconstruction, Johnson was way more merciful to the Southern states, which unfortunately led to restrictive “black codes” that only ended up decimating the freedoms of freed slaves.
