fighting+civil+war-bitty

= = THE EARLY STAGES

** african americans **

 * the African American men helped a lot by joining the military

women
this showed that the belief that women were emotionally weaker was indeed not true.
 * the women helped in the civil war by being nurses to aide the injured soldiers, and to take care of the families at home and the businesses.

THE TURNING POINT

= lincoln's assasination = Lincoln was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth. One night, the president and his wife went to a play, John snuck into the booth that lincoln was in and shot him in the back of the head. Lincoln died the next morning.