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John Wilkes Booth killed

Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was shot and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Virginia.

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Lincoln assassinated

President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washingon, DC, during a performance of Our American Cousin.

Glossary Term – Event

At Lincoln’s death Johnson became president

Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m.; Andrew Johnson became president.

Glossary Term – Person

John Wilkes Booth

Teaching Resource

What Events Led to Lincoln’s Assassination?

Overview

Fourth-grade students often associate Abraham Lincoln with three things: He wore a tall hat, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and he was assassinated. The murder of Lincoln, whom most historians consider one of the country’s two most important presidents, had major consequences for our nation and for the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War.

John Wilkes Booth’s premeditated attack was a carefully orchestrated plot involving at least eight other participants. The fact that President Lincoln was...