USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION

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Abraham Lincoln

(A) was killed during play “Taming of the Shrew”

(B) was killed during play “Le Vie”

(C) ** was killed during play “Our American Cousin”

(D) was killed during play “Yankee Doodle Dandee"

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Concept note-2: -The assassination grew out of a kidnapping plot. Booth and others had plotted to snatch the president, spirit him away to Richmond, then exchange him for thousands of Confederate prisoners of war who could return to the battlefield.

Concept note-3: -Read a brief summary of this topic assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.