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Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Where was Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth?
Ford's Theater
How many days was the manhunt?
What is 12 days?
What weapon did Booth use to shoot President Lincoln?
0.44 caliber Deringer pistol
JWB yelled, "Sic semper tyrannis!" which means...
What is Thus always to tyrants.
Who helped fix John Wilkes Booth's injured leg after he shot Lincoln?
Dr. Samuel Mudd
Where was Lincoln taken after he was shot and ultimately died?
Where is the Petersen House.
What is Mary Surratt's only known role in the assassination plot of President Lincoln?
What is delivering weapons.
What was the bounty on Lincoln's killers offered by the War Department?
$100,000
In "O Captain! My Captain!" which word is repeated 5 times as the heartsick narrator tries (unsuccessfully) to rouse the Captain?
What is you.
Who was sent, unarmed, into the shed at the Garrett Farm?
Who is John Garrett.
In "O Captain! My Captain!" the captain's vessel is like...
What is the Union.
In this simile, what does JWB appear as: "Like a ghostly vision, John Wilkes Booth pale, haunting face emerged from the darkness."
What is a ghost.
What was one of the main issues between the Union and the Confederacy?
Slavery
Augustus Seward fought mightily to defend his father against Lewis Powell. What odd thing did Powell say, only inches from the Augustus's face?
"I'm mad! I'm mad!"
Who killed John Wilkes Booth?
Boston Corbett
Where were Booth and Herold cornered by the cavalry?
The tobacco shed.
In the elegy, "O Captain, My Captain" describe the narrator's mood: "But I walk with mournful tread,/Walk the deck my Captain lies/Fallen cold and dead."
What is mournful or grief-stricken.
What happened to the conspirators, after they were caught?
What is death by hanging.
What were John's Wilkes Booth's last words while looking at his hands?
"Useless, useless"
Who ordered an autopsy of JWB to make sure he was the assassin?
Who is Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
Where was Abraham Lincoln buried?
Springfield, IL
Everton Conger, a key figure in capturing JWB, was paid how much for his role in the manhunt?
What is $15,000.
What did Booth originally plan to do to Lincoln instead of killing him?
Kidnap
What was John Wilkes Booth's message for his mother as he was dying?
What is "Tell Mother, I die for my country."