Abraham Lincoln 's Assassination Of The United States

On April 14, Lincoln held a Cabinet congregation to talk over post-war reconstructing exhaustively. President Lincoln wanted to have southern state governments in operation prior to Congress met in December in order to keep away from the oppression of the vengeful Radical Republicans. That same night, during the time that Lincoln was watching a play at Ford’s Theatre, a fanatical Southern actor, John Wilkes Booth, crept up at the back Lincoln and shot him in the head. Lincoln died the following day, leaving the South with little wish for a non-revengeful Reconstruction.

He held one final meeting with his co-conspirators. He said he would kill Lincoln at the theatre (he had since learned that Grant had left town). Atzerodt was to kill Vice-President Andrew Johnson at the Kirkwood House where Johnson resided. Powell was assigned to kill Secretary of State William Seward. Herold would accompany Powell. All attacks were to take place simultaneously at approximately 10:15 P.M. that night. Booth hoped the resulting chaos and weakness in the government would lead to a comeback for the South.

Why did John Wilkes Booth want to kill Lincoln?  Booth wanted to kill Lincoln because he didn’t liked how Lincoln wanted to let black people vote. But then he attended  Lincoln’s speech and Lincoln was trying to back out of letting the blacks vote.  After this John W. Booth was so mad that he was trying to get a group together to kidnap Lincoln. This then led to Lincoln’s  assassination.(9)

Sadly, Lincoln was killed due to the belief of Booth that “Lincoln was going to over throw the constitution and destroy the south he loved.” (Booths reason for assassination) This was most likely caused by the fact that Booth was an open confederate sympathizer during the war. It was also thought that the guards were not doing their jobs at the theatre and that they allowed Booth to sneak by and shoot Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer pistol. Recently after Lincoln’s death it was found that co-conspirators were involved in Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s

After the confederate loss he felt it was necessary to reclaim vengeance and victory for the South. Following two failed kidnapping attempts, Booth decided the only option was to kill the president, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and the Secretary of State all in the same night. However, Booth would be the only one to successfully kill his target. After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln in the Ford Theater, he screamed “thus be it ever to tyrants!” and fled on horseback. Some accounts even say he screamed “the South is avenged!” (USHistory.org. 3). His actions were justified to those who followed his cause because the south was “cheated” from its way of life. On the other hand, to those who followed Lincoln it was a complete travesty and took away any chance America had of rebuilding itself because Lincoln provided innovative ideas and abolitionist ideals.

Before John Wilkes Booth killed president Lincoln he and a bunch of conspirators meet up at a confederate secret service in Canada. Booth and his fellow conspirators talked about anti-union conspiracies. Many of them wanted to do something to president Lincoln, like kidnap or kill him. Some people in the south wrote letters to the Conspirators. One of those letters was from Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. The letter said that Dr. Mudd agreed with what Booth and all of his conspirators were talking about. Booth had originally planned on kidnapping the president, not assassinating him.

He was furious when the North beat the South and Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, which meant that all slaves shall be free by the end of the war. He was a big supporter of the South as well as slavery and wanted revenge for the surrender of the South. In “Chasing Lincoln's Killer,” Booth had said, “I'm tired of all these kids waving the American flag” (Swanson 5 ). He had strongly supported slavery and was a racist figure in history. After the Proclamation was announced, Booth made a promise to God saying that he would kill the president. The four main targets for Booth’s assassination plot were General Ulysses Grant, Secretary of State William Seward, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and the main one President Lincoln. Grant didn't want to go to the play, and so he didn't show

On April 15th, 1865, the next morning, Abraham Lincoln died of his wound. After Lincoln’s assassination, the whole country was in shock. President Lincoln’s assassinator, John Wilkes Booth, was found in a tobacco barn in Virginia by federal agents twelve days after he shot President Lincoln. The federal agents started burning down the barn to force John Wilkes Booth out. As it was burning, a Union Soldier shot and killed John Wilkes Booth.

Almost everything in life or death starts with a plan, and that was no different for John Wilkes Booth. He and his co-conspirators, all southern Confederates, knew what they wanted, and originally that didn’t include President Lincoln’s death. They had wanted to kidnap him, take him to _______, and hold him for ransom. However, the main reason for such a drastic measures by the confederates was so that they could promote a trade with the North, the trade of men. They hoped to trade Lincoln for the Confederate prisoners of war.

In the north there was an overwhelming sense of loss among the population. The man that had led them victory against the South and held the Union together was taken away from them by an assassin’s bullet. In the South, the reaction to Lincoln’s death was not as prosperous as John Wilkes Booth would have liked. According to an article published in the Charleston Courier on April 20, 1865 the president’s death was just as important to the population of the South as in the North. Booth was hailed as a hero by some, but not by the entire population. The response to Lincoln’s death among southerners caused no spark in the south, which was even more tired than the North from the fighting. Booth’s killing of Lincoln is very prominent to history because Lincoln was the first president assassinated in office. Even with his killing Booth failed in achieving his goal, the South was finished with

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. In 1865, the government wanted vengeance. They knew that Mary Surratt was associated with Booth, so they quickly drove to the conclusion that she was guilty and she deserved to be hanged, her trial was rushed and unfair . Mary Surratt did not receive a fair trial and did not deserve execution.

April 14, 1865, Friday, in the theatre Lincoln who was attending to a performance of “ Our American Cousin” and also brought Gen. Grant along to the performance. John Wilkes Booth found out that Lincoln was attending to the evening performance. Booth, then held a meeting with his partners and notified them about his master plan to kill the president in the Ford’s Theatre. One of the partners of of Booth, name George Atzerodt, who was assigned to killed Vice President, and another partner name Lewis Powell who was assigned to killed Secretary of State William Seward. The master mind, Booth who plan to attack all of them around the time of 10:45 pm.

They found them in a barn in Port Royal, Virginia on April 26 (Kelly). David Herold surrendered but Booth did not, so they set fire to the barn to make him come out, but instead Sergeant Boston Corbett shot him (“The Assassination of the President”). Booth gave Abraham Lincoln a slow death. Booth shot Lincoln in the left side of the head. Lincoln was shot on April 14 and died on April 15th at 7:22 A.M (“Abraham Lincoln Assassination”). The conspirators that Booth worked with were Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, John Surratt, Lewis Powell or ( Paine - Payne), George Atzerodt, David Herold, Dr. Samuel Mudd, and Mary Surratt (“An overview of…”). Almost all of the conspirators were sent to jail, hung, died in jail, or were shot (“Assassination of President Abraham

On April 18, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. John was from Maryland born in 1838 him and several associates had planned to kidnap and take him to Richmond Abraham Lincoln but where the place they planned to take him Lincoln didn't show up. After that John planned to save the Confederacy. John and his several others found out that Abraham and his wife was going to be at the “Our American Cousin” a theatre in Washington. Lincoln was in the private box with his wife Mary, an officer and the officers fiance, Abraham also arrived late to the comedy and people said he was happy and laughing. At 10:15 John went into the box and shot Abraham in the back of the head with a 44-caliber, before he shot Abraham he stabbed one

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He was elected into presidency on November 6, 1860. Many of the southern states were unsupportive of Lincoln becoming president because he had run on an anti-slavery platform. Lincoln being elected into presidency caused states such as South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas to split from the Union. In his inaugural address Lincoln proclaimed it was his duty to maintain the Union; a month later the Civil War began. Although Lincoln did many great things for our country, his vital role in the Civil War is what most likely lead to his assassination.