Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. In 1818 he moved to Indiana. On November 4, 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd. In 1832 Lincoln became a candidate for state legislature but he lost. Later that year he was appointed to postmaster of New Salem, then later became deputy county surveyor. Lincoln ran for the Illinois legislature but was not successful. Two years later Lincoln was elected to the Lower House for four terms as a Whig. After this he ran for a seat in the U.S. senate but he was defeated. Lincoln then joined the newly formed Republican Party. He was chosen to run against John C. Breckenbridge for U.S. president and he won and became the sixteenth President of the United States. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes booth on April 14, 1865. Booth started planning to assassinate Lincoln in 1864. Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, John Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and David Herold helped Booth in assassinating Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth was a racist and a southern sympathizer. Booth was against everything Lincoln represented. Lincoln was assassinated at the fords theatre in Washington D.C. Booth wanted
The Lincoln Assassination On April, 14 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a performance of An American Cousin at Ford's Theater. President Lincoln died the next morning. The person who had killed Lincoln was John Wilkes Booth. A few days before he was killed, Lincoln had told his spouse about a dream he had, he saw a president shrouded on a catafalque in the east room of the White House. Even after this dream he attended An American Cousin at Ford's Theater. John Wilkes Booth thought the president was determined to destroy the constitution, set aside the rights reserved to the states, crush civil liberties, and restore monarchy. He saw the confederacy was the only means to of upholding the values of the founding fathers. He devoted much of late 1864 and early 1865 to a series of plots to abduct Lincoln and use his capture to nullify the Union's war aims. Every scheme ending in frustration. After Lee had surrendered to the Army of the Potomac, in the second week of April, he saw that only the most desperate measures offered any hope of salvaging the Southern Cause. Shortly before he went into the theater, he stopped at tavern
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