Question

Use the items from the drop-down menu to complete the paragraph.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on
, 1865 in
. The news stunned the war-torn nation, but it also brought about major changes in the way the country would recover from the Civil War. Gone was Lincoln’s vision of a lenient end to the war, mainly his famous “
.” Instead, members of his party- the so-called “
”- decided to oversee a military reconstruction of the South, instituting sweeping social and political reforms on the former Confederate States.

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 in Ford’s Theatre. The news stunned the war-torn nation, but it also brought about major changes in the way the country would recover from the Civil War. Gone was Lincoln’s vision of a lenient end to the war, mainly his famous “10 percent plan.” Instead, members of his party—the so-called “Radical Republicans”—decided to oversee a military reconstruction of the South, instituting sweeping social and political reforms on the former Confederate states.