Because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Jhon j wanted to keep the union together
Because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Because it would have allowed some extension of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth .john booth is a union
John Wilkes Boothe planned on, and succeeded in, killing Union president Abraham Lincoln.
There are going to be four people in the election, they are Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, John C. Bell, and John C. Breckenridge. Lincoln was for the Republican Party, Douglas was for the Northern Democrat Party, Bell was for the Constitutional Union Party, and Breckenridge was for the Southern Democrat Party. Lincoln- reunited the union Douglas- published the NorthStar Bell- i dont know Breckenridge- i dont know
He was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abe Lincoln's killer, John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, fled to Virginia following the assassination. It was there that soldiers of the Union Army caught up with him. He was shot and killed.
Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union John Bell, & Democrat Stephen Douglas.
If you are referring to John Wilks Booth who assassinated Lincoln, his objective was to cripple Union leadership and give confederates another chance to rebel.
crittenden compromise
Booth thought that by destroying the leadership of the Union, the South would gain enough time to pull the Confederate Army together and make the Civil War a win.As a famous actor, John Wilkes Booth knew alot about motivation. He was a southern sympathizer who hated Lincoln. He had to be a meglomaniac, for he saw, by assassinating Lincoln, that he would become a Southern "hero".