Please help they are easy questions I just have half an hour to finish them! 1.Who was involved in the assassination of Lincoln, and why did they carry out their plan?
2.What happened at Ford's Theatre, and how do you think it affected the United States?

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1- Just reword this in your own words- On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth became the first person to assassinate an American president when he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln in his box at Ford's Theater in Washington. ... A supporter of slavery, Booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South.

2- Abraham Lincoln's assassination dramatically changed the Reconstruction era. President Abraham Lincoln, America's Civil War leader, was assassinated just five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House, ending the four-year War Between the States. Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. It is infamous for being the site of the assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. ... The theatre was later used as a warehouse and office building, and in 1893 part of it collapsed, causing 22 deaths.

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