USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION

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Mary Todd Lincoln accused Andrew Johnson of being part of the plot to kill Lincoln.

(A) ** True

(B) False

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Concept note-1: -Eight conspirators were tried by a military commission for Abraham Lincoln’s murder. David Herold, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt were found guilty and hanged, while Samuel A. Mudd, Michael O’Laughlen, and Samuel Arnold were sentenced to life imprisonment. Edman Spangler received a six-year sentence.

Concept note-2: -A member of a famous acting family, and a fierce partisan of the Confederacy, Booth was the subject of a 12-day manhunt through Maryland and Virginia after he shot Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.