apr 16, 1865 - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Anchor date for the beginning of Unit 6The assassination of Abraham Lincoln occurred on April 14, 1865, when he was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln's death the following morning marked the first assassination of a U.S. president and had significant ramifications for Reconstruction, shifting its direction under his successor, Andrew Johnson.
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apr 16, 1865
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~ 160 years ago