The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

 What lead up to the Assassination of Lincoln

                       The assassin John Wilkes Booth                        The victim Abraham Lincoln 

    Lincoln would win the 1860 presidential election by running on an anti-slavery Republican platform. This win, carried entirely on the back of northern states, would serve to cause multiple southern states to secede before Lincoln’s inauguration, and by May of 1861, the entirety of the Confederacy would be formed. Northern Democrats would fervently oppose the use of the army to bring the South back into the fold.
    John Wilkes Booth would be heavily influenced by this Democrat opposition, feeling that Lincoln and his fellow Republicans were subversive and disloyal to the Union. That Lincoln's response to the secession of southern states was a waste of human life. These beliefs would put Booth into more contact with Southern sympathizers. As the war slowly came to an end Booth would hatch a plan with these sympathizers to kill Lincoln along with Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward.

The assassination itself.



Sources for pictures 
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Wilkes_Booth-portrait.jpg

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