Question

What post–Civil War event is most associated with Ford’s Theatre?

(A) Andrew Johnson’s impeachment
(B) Lee’s offi cial surrender to Grant
(C) Abraham Lincoln’s assassination
(D) Finalization of the Compromise of 1877
(E) The fi rst Ku Klux Klan meeting

Answer 1

Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C will forever mark the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On April 14, 1865, while attending a play called Our American Cousin, the event marks the first successful assassination of an United States president in history. The shooting was carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes-Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy and attempt to revive the Confederate cause. Booth entered the Presidential Box and shot the president at point-blank range. The wound turned out to be fatal, when Abraham Lincoln diet the very next morning.