Question

5. Summarize the events surrounding Lincoln’s assassination. How do the circumstances of his death reflect the conflict that still existed in the country even after the war ended?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was yet another wound that our country suffered due to the "peculiar institution" of slavery. In studying the Civil War, students will discover that slavery was at the core of the conflict that tore our nation apart and that ultimately killed the sixteenth president. States’ rights, while often cited as the reason why Southern states seceded, masked the political and moral arguments over slavery. Lincoln’s legacy—the abolition of slavery in the United States—was also the cause of his death.

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