ASSASSINATION OF
LINCOLN
Events, Issues and places
• Emancipation
Proclamation
• Executive order of 1863
• Angered many
• States Rights
• vs. federal government
• reason for secession
• Freed slaves
• loss of property
• Possible right to vote
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Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Ford’s Theatre
Booth’s escape route
President Lincoln
• Mention of blacks to be
allowed to vote
• Attempted to unite the
country
• Motives angered many
in the south
• Opponent of slavery
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The Assassin
• John Wilkes Booth
• Famous actor and
southern sympathizer
• Initially planned to
kidnap Lincoln
• Plotted with a group of
southern sympathizers
called “Lincoln
conspirators”
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Ford’s TheaTer
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Originally erected as a church in 1833
John T. Ford bought it in 1861 and used for a theatre
Destroyed by fire in 1862 rebuilt a year later
Prohibited for use as a place of entertainment after Lincoln’s death
1866-1867 used by the US military for records
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Booth’s Escape Route
Ford Theatre
April 14 1865 shot Lincoln
Surratt TAVERN
Midnight April 14 1865
Picked up weapons
Home of Dr. Mudd
April 15 1865 Leg set
Home of Samuel Cox
April 16 1865 Sought help
Stayed in Woods April 16-21
Lucas Farm Slept in cabin
April 23
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Garrett’s Farm killed
April 26 1865
References
• http://creativecommons.org
• The American Promise 4th Edition
Roark, J., Johnson, M.P., Cohen Cline, P.,
Stage, S., Lawson, A., Hartman, S.M.