...he learned that the President would be visiting the Theatre to see a play that night.(Holzer “The president is shot” 90) Booth decided that this was his chance, that he would assassinate the president and have his accomplishes murder other heads of the government, thinking that the combination of these might be enough to save what was left of the Confederacy.(Marrin 211) However, Booth was not the first to want to kill the president, in fact Abraham Lincoln recived so many threats by mail that he kept some of them in an envelope labeled “Assassination”.(Holzer “The president is shot” 42) In spite of this, Booth believed that this...
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...assassinated Lincoln because Lincoln did not support slavery, the Civil War was coming to an end, and the Confederate army was near collapse in the South. One of the possible motives for Lincoln’s assassination was that he was not a supporter of slavery. Booth was a big supporter of slavery and it made him very angry that President Lincoln Rotondaro 2 wasn’t. He strongly opposed the ending of slavery. Growing up, John Wilkes Booth lived in a household that owned slaves. Because of this, Booth was used to the idea of having slaves around. However, Lincoln campaigned against slavery and advocated the outlawing of the spread of slavery amongst the states. He supported extending the vote to educated African Americans and all black veterans. In January of 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that said, “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free” (PBS 1). The support President Lincoln had against slavery really bothered Booth. This disagreement gave John Wilkes Booth a motive for Lincoln’s assassination. Another possible motive that John Wilkes Booth had in regards to President Lincoln’s assassination was that the Civil War and slavery were coming to an end. After General Robert E. Lee’s confederate forces surrendered, the Civil War was concluding. Booth loved the South and he thought that this was going...
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...Cavalry was searching for him everywhere, and anyone knowing that Booth was around could exclaim this to the public, terminating Booth once and for all. Not surprisingly, this happened, “The Garretts, already guilty of inhospitality were conspiring to commit a worse offense: treachery. Lincoln’s assassin had walked into a trap,” the author tells the story on how The Garretts, who were caring for Booth would turn him in. They would watch him die, and Booth could not avoid this trap, nor overcome it. The Garretts had locked him in a barn where he was asleep and turned him into a prisoner. Betrayal continued as Willie Jett, a man who knew much about Booth, said “I know who you want and I can tell you where they can be found” shutting the door in Booth’s face, the manhunt was over (Swanson 164). So, in conclusion, Booth was trapped by his own kind, and his whereabouts were revealed, he was unable to overcome this obstacle as it was far out of his control, and his punishment would be...
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...soldiers and made them easy targets for Booth (Swanson 388). Booth gathered his weapons and his crutches and prepared to go out to fight the soldiers. Private Boston Corbett had been waiting at the side of the barn, and saw Booth prepare himself to fight. Since he was out of Booth’s line of sight, Corbett lined up the shot, and pulled the trigger. Booth fell to the ground, and the detectives rushed into to retrieve Booth’s body before the entire barn was encompassed by the inferno. Corbett had shot Booth because he believed that Booth was ready to open fire on his fellow soldiers (Booth 19). They laid Booth on the porch, where he laid for hours, paralyzed. He disgustedly called his hands “Useless, useless” and his final words were “Tell my mother I died for my country” (Swanson 411). Around 7 A.M. on April 26, 1865, almost two weeks after assassinating the President of the United States, the paralyzed John Wilkes Booth died (Booth 19). Lincoln’s assassination dramatically changed how the North and South would be reconciled after the brutal four-year Civil War (White 8). Lincoln’s death brought out many different reactions from Americans across the country (White 28). According to Joel Achenbach, Lincoln’s assassination “was a true conspiracy, born of the war and its underlying causes” (Achenbach 49). At Lincoln’s...
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...Assassinating a president was unheard of until John Wilkes Booth had assassinated the sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, on April 14th, 1865. This was the first assassination of a president ever. John Wilkes Booth had assassinated president Lincoln but he did not act alone. John Wilkes Booth had many accomplices in this act. One of Booth's accomplices was Lewis Powell. Booth had met Powell at a hotel and he soon recruited him to help with his plan to take down the president and the leading power in the government. Booth had also took in George Atzerodt to help in this horrific act. Lewis Powell was sent to attempt to murder Secretary of State William Henry Seward, but this did not go as planned. Powell ended up attempting to shoot Seward's son but he had misfired. He had also slashed Sergeant George F. Robinson an army nurse watching over Seward. Also in his attempt to reach Seward he had punched Seward's daughter in the face. When he had got to Seward he had stabbed and slashed him on the neck and cheek.(Blakemore) George Atzerodt had become filled with fear so he did not complete his task. Atzerodt’s task was to murder vice president Andrew Johnson at his hotel. Atzerodt had not even make it past the hotel bar. He was going to drink a little bit to calm his nerves but he kept drinking...
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...Only a few short hours after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, amateur detectives and conspiracy theorists, questioned and debated the proven fact that the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth’s plans for the assassination were detailed, his co-conspirators followed-through on their parts of the plot and the escape route was all mapped out. The successful assassination of President Lincoln and escape of John Wilkes Booth, seemed a sure thing, until Booth was trapped in a barn on Garrett’s farm and ultimately shot dead by a Union soldier. Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, had several reasons to murder the President on the night of April 14, 1865. According to Historynet:...
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...Only a few short hours after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, amateur detectives and conspiracy theorists, questioned and debated the proven fact that the sixteenth president of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth’s plans for the assassination were detailed, his co-conspirators followed-through on their parts of the plot and the escape route was all mapped out. The successful assassination of President Lincoln and escape of John Wilkes Booth, seemed a sure thing, until Booth was trapped in a barn on Garrett’s farm and ultimately shot dead by a Union soldier. Lincoln’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, had several reasons to murder the President on the night of April 14, 1865. According to Historynet:...
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...Book Review: “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” Nicole True “The Day Lincoln Was Shot” by Jim Bishop takes its readers on a captivating journey through the events that took place leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s death. The unique writing approach taken by the author presents a detailed hour by hour summary of the day when president Lincoln was killed, beginning with the morning of Friday, April 14th, 1865 and ending the following morning. Every chapter represents an hour, though scattered throughout the book are various sections that give insight to the assassination. Some of the most notable extra chapters are, “The Days Before”, “The President”, and “The Conspiracy”. These parts are intended to give enough background information so that the reader is able to make connections and, in Bishop’s words, “[place] the events of the day in context.” Throughout the book the reader examines the step by step course taken by major characters,...
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...M. K. Gandhi AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR The story of my experiments with truth TRANSLATED FROM THE GUJARATI BY MAHADEV DESAI GANDHI BOOK CENTRE Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal 299, Tardeo Raod, Nana Chowk Bombay - 7 INDIA 3872061 email: info @ mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org www: mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org NAVAJIVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE AHMEDABAD-380014 Chapter 1 BIRTH AND PARENTAGE he Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grandfather, they have been Prime Ministers in several Kathiawad States. Uttamchand Gandhi, alias Ota Gandhi, my grandfather, must have been a man of principle. State intrigues compelled him to leave Porbandar, where he was Diwan, and to seek refuge in Junagadh. There he saluted the Nawab with the left hand. Someone, noticing the apparent discourtesy, asked for an explanation, which was given thus: 'The right hand is already pledged to Porbandar.' Ota Gandhi married a second time, having lost his first wife. He had four sons by his first wife and two by his second wife. I do not think that in my childhood I ever felt or knew that these sons of Ota Gandhi were not all of the same mother. The fifth of these six brothers was Karamchand Gandhi, alias Kaba Gandhi, and the sixth was Tulsidas Gandhi. Both these brothers were Prime Ministers in Porbandar, one after the other. Kaba Gandhi was my father. He was a member of the Rajasthanik Court. It is now extinct, but in those days it was a very influential body for...
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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