3. Lincoln's Early Life
Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a cabin in
Hardin Country, Kentucky.
Thomas, and Nancy Hanks was his mother and
father. His eldest sister Sarah, and younger brother
Thomas, who died in infancy.
Abraham's grandfather was killed by Native
Americans. Growing up, it left Abs father heart
broken and without an education
4.
In 1816 the Lincolns moved to Indiana, partly
because of difficulties with titling land in Kentucky.
Land ownership was better in Indiana because of the
Land Ordinance of 1785 provided by the federal
government.
The Lincoln’s belonged to a Baptist Church the
disapproved of slavery
In Indiana the Lincolns’ live on Little Pigeon
Creek, in Perry County. It was not easy, they were
raised to work on a farm.
5. less the a year he
Abraham attended school and
could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but
that was all.
1818 Abe’s mother died, his father remarried a
Kentucky widow, she was nice and kind. In 1828
Ab’s eldest sister died during childbirth.
Beginning in 1820 Abe stated to make flatboat trips
to many cities and states.
6.
7. Booth’s Early Life
John was the ninth child out of ten children born to
the famous eccentric, and heavy of a drinker. John’s
dad Junius Booth.
The Booth family along with their slaves, lived on a
farm near Bel Air, Maryland.
John wanted to become an actor, so he made is own
debut at the age of 17 in Baltimore, appearing in
Richard III.
8. actor in the career of
Becoming a highly successful
Shakespearian company, took John all over the
United States.
On November 9, 1863, Abe Lincoln watched Booth
play Raphael in the play Marble Heart in the same
box that he was later assassinated in, at Ford’s
Theater.
In 1850 Booth became interested in politics, later
joining the Know-Nothing Party.
9.
Booth also supported the institution of slavery, and
in 1859 joined a Virginia Company
That aided in the capture of John Brown. Booth was
an eyewitness to Brown’s execution.
During the Civil War, Booth worked as a
Confederate’s secret agent.
He constantly met with the Secret Service’s
leaders, Jacob Thompson and Clement Clay in
Montreal, Canada.
10.
11. The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln- Republican-180 Electoral- Popular
1,865,908
John C. Breckinridge- Southern Democratic- 72
Electoral- Popular 669,148
John Bell- Constitutional Union- 39 Electoral-
Popular 590,901
Stephen A. Douglas- Northern Democratic- 12
Electoral-Popular 1,004,823
12.
Lincoln wasn’t the first picked, to be nominated for
the Republican Party.
First it was William Seward, was favored to win at
first,
but many delegates felt that his emotion towards
being anti-slavery was too extreme, and might hurt
the Republicans chances of winning.
13.
The Politician that won the election was Abe Lincoln
because he had the most Electoral and Popular votes.
The reason being because there were more
Republican than any other Party, but very few
people that supported the Constitutional Union
Party.
But there were just as many Republicans as there
were Democrats.
But the Democrats had to vote between two
nominees and the Republicans only had to vote for
one nominee.
14. John Booth’s Role in the
Conspiracy
In the summer of, Booth began to come up with a
plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln
The plan was to capture the president and take him
down south to Richmond, Virginia.
Where he would be held until exchanged for
Confederate prisoner-of-war.
15.
On March 15, Booth and his other conspirators met 3
blocks away from the Ford’s Theater, to plan their
abduction of the President.
But then plans changed cause Abe was attending a
performance on March 17. so he thought that this
was the perfect plan to capture the president.
When Booth exampled the both plans to his co-
conspirators, the plan failed to win the support so
the dismissed it as infeasible.
16.
So Booth went with his finally plan, and plan to
assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
He also tried to convince several of his co-
conspirators to assassinate several high government
officials.
Including the Vice President, the Secretary of State,
and probably General Grant, but they were few
willing to do the job.
17.
18. The Assassination of
Abraham Lincoln
Around 10:15the President and the First Lady began
to watch the performance of Our American Cousin.
Booth showed a card to a presidential aide and was
allow to pass.
Almost reach the Presidents box with the gun behind
his back. He stand 4 feet behind Abe and shoots him
I the back of the head.
He shouts out “Revenge for the South” or
“Freedom”
19. Death of John Booth
Near the banks of the Rappahannock River in
Virginia, investigators closed in on Booth and his
Companion, David Herodl on April 26.
Than just Booth run to a barn called Garrett
barn, and had a shoot out with the
investigators/polices for 2 or 3 hours.
Than finally after hours of being shot out, Booth
Finally died.
