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Abraham Lincoln Assassination Research Paper

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On the evening of April 14, 1865, one of our greatest presidents was assassinated. His absence to life was awful and tragic. It left the nation in mourning after his death. President, Abraham Lincoln was very brave and confident. He was a role-model and showed leadership even in the toughest moments in history. Lincoln was also inspirational, he inspired people, mainly with his political protest and well known speeches. Abraham Lincoln's assassination was unjustified because he began the process to end slavery, helped people get equal rights, and stopped our nation from splitting apart; although southern Sympathizers hated and disagreed with his decisions.
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Although the Emancipation Proclamation wasn't able to free all slaves, it was able to “ give African Americans the right to fight for their freedom”. In doing so, it gave them the right to join the Army and the Navy of the Union (“ What were Abraham Accomplishments” ). Lincoln didn't necessarily give blacks the right to vote, but was doing the impossible to help them get equal rights by announcing it in may of his speeches and trying to gain as many supporters as he could. One of his big accomplishments was the “ Gettysburg Address”, this speech is very well-known, because President Lincoln talked about many things that could affect the country, in a good way. For example, he was saying that if we were a whole, that we could accomplish a lot more and that freedom would apply to everyone in the states (“ What were Abraham Accomplishments” …show more content…

Especially Southern Sympathizers, they just disagreed with all of his decisions. The main reason why they did was because, Lincoln wanted to end slavery, because he opposed it and thought it was wrong, but the South favored slavery and didn't want it to end. Therefore the south hated him. But no one hated him as much as John Wilkes Booth, a southerner and well-known actor. When the Confederate was defeated,Booth thought that it was okay to take matters into his own hands (O’Reilly, Dugard 27). He than thought, that something big and horrible had to be done to President, Abraham Lincoln. Booth then began looking for conspirators and coming up with a plan. His original plan was to abduct Lincoln, he failed many times, but didn't give up (O’Reilly, Dugard 94). His new plan was to capture him while watching a play at Ford’s Theatre, but that also didn’t go as planned either, so when he had the chance, he took out his pistol and shot the president in the back of the head. After he shot Lincoln he took off while yelling, “Revenge for the South!”. John Wilkes Booth did managed to escape, making his manhunt “largest in the time period.”. President Abraham Lincoln was then “pronounced dead the next day.( Wallenfeldt Encyclopaedia

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