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Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln?

A to cause panic in the North

B to remove an obstacle to peace

C to avenge the capture of his co conspirators

D to put Lincoln’s vice president into power

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John W. Booth had done the assasination because he had to avenge the capture of his co conspirators
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To cause panic in the north

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