Step 1 : Introduction to the question "After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, what doctor treated John Wilkes Booth's injuries?"
... Who were the people who helped John Wilkes Booth?
Profiles of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators. Clockwise from top: John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell, David Herold, Michael O'Lauglin, John Surratt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold, George Atzerodt. Center:
Who were the people who helped John Wilkes Booth?
What happened to the economy of the South after the Civil War? There was great wealth in the South, but it was primarily tied up in the slave economy. In 1860, the economic value of slaves in the United States exceeded the invested value of all of the nation's railroads, factories, and banks combined. On the eve of the Civil War, cotton prices were at an all-time high.