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== =The Assassination=

Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that talked about his plan to restore the Southern states to the Union and African Americans in the Southern states governments. Later Lincoln went to go see a play a Ford Theatre with his wife on April 14,1865. John Wilkes Booth slipped quietly behind Lincoln and shot him in the back of the head. Lincoln later died the next morning. Lincoln was assassinated because of that speech.