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Lincoln Assassination Webquest

Step One: Visit the following website by typing the following address into your URL window EXACTLY as it is listed below!

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html

Step Two: Read the short article about the infamous assassination attempt!

Step Three: On the evening of April 14, 1865, TWO assassination attempts took place. Using ONLY 20 sentences make a list of the events as they occurred that evening in their proper order. The first one has been done for you

1.  Abraham Lincoln and his friends show up at Fords Theatre to see “Our American Cousin.”

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Step Four: Visit the following website by typing the following address into your URL window EXACTLY as it is listed below!

http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination

Step Five: Read this article and list five new pieces of information about the assassination attempts you did not learn from the first website.

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Step Six: Click on this link: http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln74.html

After researching theories, circle which of the following conspiracy theories below that you believe to be the most accurate!

THEORY #1:
ANDREW JOHNSON WAS INVOLVED WITH BOOTH / THEORY #2:
LINCOLN DIED BY A SIMPLE PLAN BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH / THEORY #3:
THE ASSASSINATION WAS THE RESULT OF A CONFEDERATE PLOT
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LINCOLN WAS KILLED BY POWERFUL INTERNATIONAL BANKERS / THEORY #5:
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HAD LINCOLN
KILLED / THEORY #6:
SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN STANTON WAS THE MASTERMIND BEHIND LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION


Step Eight: Using no less than 10 sentences, defend why you believe the theory you picked is most accurate!

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