Abraham Lincoln

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  1. Abraham Lincoln's assassination by hunting Qureshi.
  2. Okay, so you might be thinking to yourself, Who's Abraham
  3. Lincoln? And by whom did he get killed by?
  4. So Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth.
  5. And Lincoln is one of the most respected and well
  6. known presidents of all time, and he was the 16th
  7. president of the United States, and Lincoln was actually the
  8. first president to ever be assassinated in U.
  9. S history.
  10. So Lincoln was against slavery, and he was shot by
  11. a derringer, which is a type of gun, and he
  12. didn't pass away until the very next day.
  13. Booth was a Confederate spy in an actor, and he
  14. was the youngest of 10 siblings.
  15. His family strongly believe in slavery and had slaves.
  16. Yeah. Okay, so Lincoln was assassinated in the Fourth Theater
  17. on April 14th, 18 65.
  18. This theater was in Washington, D.
  19. C. And he arrived at the theater around 8:30 p.m.
  20. With Clara Harris and Major Henry Rathbone.
  21. He was killed by Booth around 10 o'clock, and Lincoln
  22. didn't pass away until 7 22 and he was surrounded
  23. by his family.
  24. Okay, so it's really important to keep in mind that
  25. the South didn't really.
  26. It didn't really believe in having no slaves because their
  27. economy was the foundation of the economy was based on
  28. slaves. And they specialized in agriculture.
  29. So they believe that if slaves were abolish, their economy
  30. would just fail, and they wouldn't do good overall.
  31. So Lincoln wanted to abolish slavery.
  32. So a lot of people had mixed feelings about him
  33. in the South.
  34. Disliked him.
  35. So some people were extreme, and they wanted to harm
  36. or kill Lincoln.
  37. Some of the people that wanted to harm Lincoln were
  38. Lewis, Powell, John Surratt, Mary Surratt, Samuel Mad George Alsa
  39. Resort and many other people.
  40. So John Wilkes Booth was the one that actually ended
  41. up killing Lincoln.
  42. But like I said, a lot of other people had
  43. bad intentions.
  44. Okay, so Booth really wanted Thio harm Lincoln because he
  45. did not want his family to stop having, um, slaves.
  46. He still wanted to obtain slaves.
  47. So as a result, Booth shot Lincoln in a theater.
  48. Okay, So at 8.
  49. 30 like I said, at 8.
  50. 30 Lincoln entered the theater, and then Booth went to
  51. the box where Lincoln Waas and he shot him with
  52. a during ER and then Booth ran away, yelling The
  53. south shall be free.
  54. And then later Lincoln passed away.
  55. In Lincoln's last words were We will visit the Holy
  56. Land and see those places hollowed by the footsteps of
  57. the savior.
  58. There is no city on Earth I so much desire
  59. to see as Jerusalem.
  60. And then 1 to 2 days later, Booth was found
  61. and he was Sean spot.
  62. And then the people associated with Booth were either hung
  63. or they were sentenced to life in prison.
  64. Okay, so originally booths intentions weren't to kill necessary necessarily
  65. to kill Lincoln.
  66. His original plan was to kidnap Lincoln once he returned,
  67. um, from a play at Camp Bell Hospital on March
  68. 17th. But Lincoln changed his plans and he went to
  69. a military ceremony.
  70. So Booth settled on harming him.
  71. Thought the Ford's theater.
  72. Okay, so Lincoln's death had a major toll on the
  73. relationship between the North and the South, and it just
  74. overall affected the whole economy.
  75. But like I said before that, Lincoln is such a
  76. well respected and well known president, and he's known for
  77. really setting the foundation for ultimately all people to be
  78. equal and the abolishment of slavery.
  79. And he's known for his well written speech speeches and,
  80. yeah, thanks for listening and have a good day.