How Did Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Corrupt The Government

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On April 14, 1865 our country lost a great leader that helped changed our country excessively. A group of traitors defied everything our country believed in by attempting to kill the people that helped keep our country civilized and operative. Abraham Lincoln's assassination was one small part of an orchestrated scheme causing pandemonium, murder, and a failed plan to obliterate our country's government. It is believed that nine men and one woman, John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Mary Surratt, Michael O’Laughlen, Samuel Arnold, Samuel Mudd, Edmund Spangler, and John Surratt all worked together to create an infallible plan to corrupt our nation’s government. However, many historians will say otherwise. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky. When Lincoln was young, his father lost everything and his entire family moved to Perry County, Indiana, where his family …show more content…
The nation wide manhunt ended in the death of John Wilkes Booth, the killer. After killing President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth jumped over the balcony and landed on the stage of Ford’s Theatre breaking his left leg. Booth then ran outside, hopped onto a horse and escaped, or so he thought. A long and strenuous search began and about twelve days later Booth was found in a barn and eventually died the next morning. After Booth’s death, a discovery was made that there were more people involved in Lincoln’s assassination. All of his allies were tried, found guilty, and sentenced. One of them, Mary Surratt, even became the first woman to be executed by the American government. Another one, Dr. Samuel Mudd was sentenced to jail where he was eventually freed. This was because a disease was spreading throughout the jail he was put in and he helped separate the sick from the healthy until the disease wasn't a threat anymore, he also helped and treated the inmates that were
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