I am going out on a limb to say that the flow chart is somewhat correct, but the first event was the assassination of President Lincoln. I look at the confederacy's surrender as a relief point given that the summer and fall of 1864 was especially brutal with General Sherman's march to the sea and the burning of Atlanta.
Abraham Lincoln presented a future of malice toward none in his second inaugural address. He wanted a quick and easy reconstruction period, and he had the Vice President in Andrew Johnson to make it happen. The only thing that happened is that President Lincoln was killed which was the first event with the attempt to unify through the execution of John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators and the funeral. But that attempt instead led to the second event which is the Andrew Johnson Presidency and the congressional response to that Presidency. Ultimately things cooled down with the installation of President Grant on March 4, 1869.
I am going out on a limb to say that the flow chart is somewhat correct, but the first event was the assassination of President Lincoln. I look at the confederacy's surrender as a relief point given that the summer and fall of 1864 was especially brutal with General Sherman's march to the sea and the burning of Atlanta.
Abraham Lincoln presented a future of malice toward none in his second inaugural address. He wanted a quick and easy reconstruction period, and he had the Vice President in Andrew Johnson to make it happen. The only thing that happened is that President Lincoln was killed which was the first event with the attempt to unify through the execution of John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators and the funeral. But that attempt instead led to the second event which is the Andrew Johnson Presidency and the congressional response to that Presidency. Ultimately things cooled down with the installation of President Grant on March 4, 1869.
I suspect that Grant is lacking a LOT of good credit in the history books.
If you think Wilkes, and his co-conspirators killed Lincoln, you might want to read this 12 part story. You can also listen to audio.
Why Everything You Think You Know About the Lincoln Assassination is Wrong