Vocabulary
Someone who murders a well-known person
What is Assassin
The president during the Civil War
What is Abraham Lincoln
Name 1 reason why Booth assassinated Lincoln
What is slavery, South in ruins, inspire the South, supported Confederacy
What is "able to"
How did Ms. Lincoln mourn the President's death
What is tossing in bed and reaching out for Keckley
Sorrow
I assassinated the president
John Wilkes Booth
How did Booth escape the theater?
stabbed Rathbone, jumped from box, ran out of theater, mad accomplice waiting with horse
Is the connotation of "lazy" positive, negative, or neutral?
Negative
What did people do to their homes to honor the president?
draped homes in black
Mourn
My memoir shows how the people mourned the president
Elizabeth Keckley
The number of days Booth was on th run
12
the meaning of the word "avoidable"
able to be avoided or prevented
What is a memoir?
a biography about a person or event
An attitude that someone should be honored and treated-well
Respect
I tried to stop Booth in the theatre
Major Rathbone
What happened to Booth once he was found?
Shot in neck and killed
Is the connotation of the word "respected" positive, negative, or neutral
positive
How did people react in Ford's theater?
screamed, thought it was part of play, shocked
A ruler who uses power in a cruel way
Tyrant
I wrote a poem about President Lincoln
Walt Whitman
What famous words did Booth shout after shooting the President?
Sic Semper Tyrannis or Death to Tyrants
True or False: A metaphor compares 2 things using "like" or "as"
False
A captain