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Documentary: “The Lincoln Assassination”
1. On what date was Abraham Lincoln killed?
April 14, 1865
2. Approximately how many Americans died in the Civil War?
620,000
3. What number president was Abraham Lincoln?
16
4. What was the reaction of the majority of southern states after
Lincoln’s election in 1860? How did they respond?
11 of the 15 slave states seceded from the Union, forming the
Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America
State
Seceded from
the Union
Readmitted
to the Union
1. South Carolina
Dec. 20, 1860
July 9, 1868
2. Mississippi
Jan. 9, 1861
Feb. 23, 1870
3. Florida
Jan. 10, 1861
June 25, 1868
4. Alabama
Jan. 11, 1861
July 13, 1868
5. Georgia
Jan. 19, 1861
July 15, 1870
6. Louisiana
Jan. 26, 1861
July 9, 1868
7. Texas
March 2, 1861
March 30, 1870
8. Virginia
April 17, 1861
Jan. 26, 1870
9. Arkansas
May 6, 1861
June 22, 1868
10. North Carolina
May 20, 1861
July 4, 1868
11. Tennessee
June 8, 1861
July 24, 1866
5. What was the name of Lincoln’s wife?
Mary Todd Lincoln
(left) Mary Todd Lincoln in 1846, at the age of 26 and
(right) in 1861, at the age of 41, as First Lady.
6. Describe the first plot to kill Lincoln, which failed.
7. Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
8. In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation
Proclamation. What did the Emancipation Proclamation
establish?
It freed the slaves in the rebelling states only, not in the slave states
of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, which remained in
the Union.
9. Who killed President Lincoln, and where was he killed?
James Wilkes Booth killed Pres. Lincoln in Washington’s Ford’s
Theatre on April 14, 1865.
10. What role did Lincoln’s killer play for the Confederates during
the Civil War?
11. Originally, the plan was to kidnap Lincoln and hold him
hostage. What were the kidnappers hoping to accomplish by
doing this?
12. Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to the Union
forces?
13. Lincoln’s killer decided to assassinate the President after
hearing a speech delivered by him. What did Lincoln say that
infuriated him so?
14. The assassination plot involved killing three important
politicians simultaneously. Besides President Lincoln, who else
was to be assassinated?