In 1864 Abraham Lincoln beat his opponent, George McClellan, and won re-election. On April fourteenth, shortly after the defeat of the Confederation, Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater. John Wilkes Booth was killed in a warehouse later that day. He was suspected to be sided with the confederacy, and trying to weaken the Union by eliminating their leader. Instead, the Union was strengthened from their loss, and given another excuse to eliminate the south.
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