John Wilkes Booth
john wilkes booth
he planned to kill the vice president and the secretary of state
John Wilkes Booth planned to kill President Lincoln. He successfully assassinated the President on April 14, 1865 and was later captured and killed.
Washington DC based actor, John Wilkes Booth headed a conspiracy that had first planned to kidnap President Lincoln. Later after Robert E. Lee's surrender, Booth changed his plans from a kidnapping to an assassination of President Lincoln. His co-conspirators were to kill the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War. Only Booth was successful. He was soon hunted down and was killed in Maryland.
The original plan to assassinate Abraham Lincoln did not simply consist of Lincoln's assassination. Confederate leaders created a plan to ensure a Confederate lead government. The plan was to assassinate the president, vice president and several other key positions who's place was occupied with Union idealists. This plan, however, was did not seem logical, so only Lincolns assassination was carried out.
The 10% plan.
He was important because he was moved up from vice president to president and he continued Lincoln's plan.
After the death of President Lincoln, the then Vice-President Andrew Johnson became President. He decided to not follow Lincoln's plan of reconstruction of the South, opting to create his own.
President Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln's proposal for reconstruction was called "Lincoln's 10% Plan." It was a plan to reunify the North and South after the War's end.
John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.