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Killing Abraham Lincoln
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They were doing the Reconstruction planning. When Abraham Lincoln got assassinated, Andrew Johnson took over.
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Abraham Lincoln was a Civil War person.
Abraham Lincoln thought that slavery was pulling the country apart.
Abraham Lincoln was sitting in Ford's theater with his wife and friends. They were watching a comedy play called My American Cousin.
President Lincoln and the first lady were watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC when he was shot.
He accused Democrats of trying to spread slavery across the nation.
The Lincoln and Douglas debates in 1858, were extensively covered by newspapers in both the North and the South. Northerners followed the debates and by doing so, brought to national attention the views of Abraham Lincoln. Abolitionists in the North were impressed with Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery.
President Abraham Lincoln was at a opera house watching a show.
Abraham Lincoln was honored because he ended slavery and without him, we would probably have slaves working in factories and have to be doing stuff like hard labor.