USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION

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Which of the following statements is true about Lincoln‘s assassination?

(A) After Booth shot Lincoln, he jumped from the presidential box and broke his leg.

(B) Major Henry Rathbone tried to stop Booth, but Booth stabbed him with a knife.

(C) Booth shouted out the Virginia state motto while standing on the stage of the theatre.

(D) ** All of the above

(E) None of the above

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 is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Twenty-six-year-old Booth was one of the most famous actors in the country when he shot Lincoln during a performance at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on the night of April 14.

Concept note-3: -His final death scene would drag on for several hours. Soldiers moved Booth to the porch of the farmhouse belonging to the Garrett family, whose tobacco barn they had just torched. There, Booth struggled to sip water but managed to speak in a whisper. In unrelenting pain, he repeatedly begged his captors, “Kill me!

Concept note-4: -"Boston” Corbett (January 29, 1832 – presumed dead c. September 1, 1894) was an American Union Army soldier who shot and killed U.S. president Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.