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What were some of the key events that outraged John Wilkes Booth and led him to decide to assassinate President Lincoln? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

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fall of Richmond, and General Robert E. Lee surrender to the Union forces.

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booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the constitution and to destroy his beloved south

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