Civil+War+MG09

-basic- -april 14, 1865 -killed while watching OUR AMERICAN COUSIN ... Ford's theatre.. wife and two guests -John Wilkes Booth was assassin -^ hoped to create chaos by assassinating Lincoln, Seward, and Johnson -Thesis- theory came up after assassination "Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment" -Asia. She recalled how "strange men called late at night for whispered consultations." - In //The Unlocked Book// Asia wrote that she then knew "that my hero (JWB) was a spy, a blockade-runner, a rebel...I knew that he was today what he had been since childhood, an ardent lover of the South and her policy, an upholder of Southern principles. He was a man so single in his devotion, so unswerving in his principles, that he would yield everything for the cause he espoused -
 * Topic: Abraham Lincoln

Focus: Why did abraham Lincoln get assassinated?**


 * Reason for choice:**

Need some "starters" to help you brainstorm a thesis? Give your thesis the thesis test Lincoln was assassinated because of a confederate plan.
 * What's your point? (**[|**thesis**]**):**

What are four various secondary sources you have found before your research? [] [] [] [] What are two primary sources you have found to help your research?


 * What four reasons do you have that will back up your point?**

1. John Wilkes Booth was linked to the confederacy

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He was linked to the confederacy - people found the letters in a trunk that belonged to him - Additional circumstantial evidence indicated that Booth had spent nearly two weeks in Montreal in late October, 1864, a haven for Confederate loyalists.
 * What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?

Sources:


 * What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?

Sources


 * What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?

Sources


 * What is your fourth reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?

Sources

Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh?
 * Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?**