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After the Civil War
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 Assassination of Lincoln: President Lincoln- Mending the Nation

Assassination of Lincoln: President Lincoln- Mending the Nation
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     challenging words:    tough, troublemaker, Vice-President, tearing, fairly, pistol, southern, rushed, accept, stage, task, longer, news, meant, terrible, notice
     content words:    President Lincoln, Civil War, Union Army, Most Southerners, John Wilkes Booth, Wilkes Booth, Vice-President Andrew Johnson, United States

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Assassination of Lincoln: President Lincoln- Mending the Nation
By Toni Lee Robinson 		  
1     President Lincoln had a tough job. He was leader of a country with big problems. Southern states wanted to do things their own way. They called this states' rights. In most places in the South, black people were forced to be slaves. The Civil War was tearing the country apart. Americans were fighting Americans!
 
2     The President commanded the Union Army to fight the Southerners. He was sad that people were being killed, but he believed that America should be together. He did not think that states should be able to do everything they wanted. He knew the slaves had to be freed.
 
3     Finally, the war was over! The President knew it would be a hard task to put the country together again. But black people were no longer slaves. The killing had stopped. He was very happy. He planned ways to treat the South fairly even though they had been enemies.

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