Part 1 – Complete the following chart by summarizing information from the lesson in your own words. One example appears for you. Somebody ...

Wanted ...

But ...

So ...

President Abraham Lincoln

the nation to heal as quickly as possible from the Civil War and planned to reunify the nation quickly

he was assassinated in 1865 only days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender

plans for Reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln’s death

President Andrew Johnson

Radical Republicans

Southern Democrats