AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION
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He wanted Vice President Andrew Johnson to become president.
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He was paid a bunch of money by rich people from the Confederacy.
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He felt that the Confederacy was losing the war and that killing Lincoln would help the South.
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He thought Lincoln was a British spy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As the war drew to a close with the fall of Richmond on April 3, 1865, and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on April 9, there were Southern sympathizers who believed that the Confederacy could be restored. John Wilkes Booth held that belief, and it was the motive behind his plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln’s decision to fight rather than to let the Southern states secede was not based on his feelings towards slavery. Rather, he felt it was his sacred duty as President of the United States to preserve the Union at all costs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., U.S. Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln’s assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the federal government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Black Southerners genuinely mourned Lincoln’s death, while white Southerners felt something closer to a sense of reprieve from Union dominance, though they still worried about the future of the Confederate states.
Detailed explanation-5: -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!”