Why was President Lincoln Assassinated!!?

Question

Because he freed the Slaves or was it the Civil War??

Answer 1

He was killed by a madman whose first plan was to kidnap the president to force the north to give up the war. When the south surrendered, he changed his plan to an assassination as revenge for the war.

I do not think that John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln because of slaves. He probably did not like the idea of them being free, but I think that his motivation was more out of revenge for the war.

Answer 2

It is because of the civil war. Lincoln really didn't care about freeing slaves, until it became a weapon that could be used against the south. Initally, he was unwilling to do it because then you would have to deal with the issue of how to integrate the freed slaves into the rest of the society.

Booth shot him because of the damage caused in the South and he wanted to get revenge for the South.

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln - Born February 12, 1809 Hardin County, Kentucky Died April 15, 1865 (aged 56) Washington, D.C. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Originally, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, had formulated a plan to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. After attending an April 11 speech in which Lincoln promoted voting rights for blacks, an incensed Booth changed his plans and determined to assassinate the president. Booth waited until Lincoln attended the theatre, Booth jumped into the box and aimed a single-shot, round-slug 0.44 caliber Derringer at his head, firing at point-blank range. Major Henry Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth but was cut by Booth's knife. Booth then leaped to the stage and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (Latin: Thus always to tyrants) and escaped, despite a broken leg suffered in the leap. John Wilkes Booth - Born May 10, 1838 Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.A. Died April 26, 1865 (aged 26) Port Royal, Virginia, U.S.A.

Answer 4

I don't believe it's as simple as John Wilkes Booth being a madman that was dissatisfied with the end of the war. I believe in the possibility that the south was thinking of kidnapping the president to ransom their freedom from the north. At the time, the south was looking to secede from the US and the US decided to make it about slavery and freedom. If you were with the US, then you were against slavery and for freedom and if you were with the south, you were automatically seen as for slavery and against freedom and equality. The north completely ruined the south in political maneuvering, slandering them to everyone who would listen.

When Abe came along, he bought hook, line and sinker into the whole 'freeing the slaves' thing. I believe they used his energy and passion to work toward the benefit of the north and I believe he was killed after the war when he found out the truth and was going to expose it. I imagine that since Abe was such a stand-up gentleman that they approached him privately about the manner as friends and when Abe spoke against what they had planned for the continued enslavement of all americans through a monetary system of debt and credit that they let him think they agreed with him and that he had talked them into shutting down. At the same time, he would have told them his intentions to go public with the truth about the war and to publicly apologize to the south and grant them their freedom. What ended up happening next was one of the biggest cover-ups in American History and John Wilkes Booth played the stooge and took the fall to protect that secret, because if it got out, it would have ruined their vision of the future. Some want to say it was our own government, some the illuminati and others want to believe bankers did it and I say, why couldn't it have been a bit of all? And perhaps John Wilkes Booth was mad and did act out of revenge for how the war ended; does that mean he couldn't still have been a tool for someone else? The best way of getting others to do what you want is to get them to do what they already want to do. There have been people manipulating people on a grand scale since back in the days of Jesus Christ; just so they can run rampant without responsibility and rule over the world instead of being equal with the world. The simple fact of the matter is that there doesn't even have to be an organized group of these people just so long as there's intelligent people in each generation who each wish to pursue the same goal. That in itself makes a group regardless of whether they actually form one or not themselves. At any rate, I definitely think there's a lot more; overall; to history than each individual account gives credit for; and there's some individual accounts we don't even know of that could hold until riches of information regarding certain events that we will never know.

Answer 5

He was killed because of the civil war. The Civil War was not about slavery. The vast majority of soldiers in the Conferderacy could not afford slaves and would not likely risk their lives for black people to either keep them in slavery or to free them.

Robert E. Lee freed his own slaves prior to the start of the war because he wanted to show the world that it was about State's Rights vs. Federal Rights and not about slavery.

Lincoln said the following regarding slavery:

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

"I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ... And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

Lincoln didn't care about freeing slaves. He freed the slaves to punish the South.

Answer 6

Because Booth was a pofessionally frustrated nut job filled with alot of anger and rage over the war, after an aborted kidnapping plot and the rage in him stoked further in reaction to President Lincoln's second inaugural address,which he heard in person, inwhich Lincoln alluded to his relatively liberal post-war policies including dealing with the freed ex-slaves. Belated Happy Birthday Abe, huzzah.

Answer 7

Neither! Lincoln was not serving the interest of the International bankers. BY printing Greenbacks. John Wilkes Booth was a Jew and an agent for the Rothschilds. Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield and Kennedy were all assassinated by the same interests of the same thing, MONEY!
natvan.com Most of the answers in here make no sense. By the way does anyone know who owned the slave ships? They be the same ones who did Lincoln.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

Answer 9

He didn't actually free any slaves. With that said the point of the war wasn't to free the slaves it was to reunite the states and end the southern states secession. John Wilkes Booth was a deep southern extremist who was for the separation of the north and south and was just really a sore losser.

Answer 10

Neither, really. (Sort of). Booth was a radical Confederate. He was outraged at Lee's surrender and the defeat of the South, so it was a revenge murder. It had nothing to do with slavery. It was about Southern Honor from an extremist.