USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

END OF THE CIVIL WAR

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President Abraham Lincoln was killed while in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth because

(A) Booth was impatient that the emancipation of enslaved people was taking so long.

(B) The Civil War lasted too long.

(C) ** Booth did not agree with the president’s agenda.

(D) Booth was hired to do it.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Lincoln Myths and Misconceptions Quiz: Answer 12 | Looking for Lincoln | PBS. 12. After shooting Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leapt from the balcony to the stage of Ford’s Theatre in Washington, breaking his leg in the process, and shouted “Sic Semper Tyrannis!”

Concept note-2: -John Wilkes Booth was part of a family of celebrated actors, but he is remembered as the assassin who mortally wounded U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, as part of a broader conspiracy that included an attempt on the life of Secretary of State William H. Seward.

Concept note-3: -Grant, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln and his wife were watching Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at Lincoln’s head.