the reason lincoln was shot

[callum98]

I would say the main reason for lincoln death was he was the most powerful person in union goverment and the south wanted revenge thus john wilkes booth killing lincoln

[callum98]

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[Natty]

Lincoln was terminated for his unconstitutional crimes against the South. And especially Maryland.

The day after "Maryland, My Maryland" was first published, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland. Subsequently, as Virginia's secession from the Union became imminent, Lincoln sent the Union Army to occupy Annapolis and Baltimore, and declared martial law. Over the course of the next few months, the Union arrested several thousand Marylanders suspected of Southern sympathies, including 30 members of the state legislature, a US Congressman representing Maryland, the mayor and police commissioner of Baltimore, and most of the Baltimore city council. These political detainees were imprisoned in Fort McHenry and Point Lookout without trial, in many cases, for several years.

[Mike]

Lincoln was terminated for his unconstitutional crimes against the South. And especially Maryland.

It was more likely that Lincoln was shot for the same kinds of reasons that John Lennon was shot, which aren't that great considering assassination can't really be qualified as having a good reason. It was probably that he was leader of the North and that a Southerner who believed he could solve the 'War' by eliminating the dominating symbol of the war, aimed to stop it by killing Lincoln. Pretty basic reasoning for someone who hated the North.

Otherwise, someone convinced him to do it... Someone handed him the gun and said, "Kill Lennon"

[Natty]

The Commander-in-Chief is certainly a legitimate and legal target during wartime.

Booth was not a soldier but he sure was a Confederate sympathizer and even a Confederate agent.

The Unconstitutional crimes that Lincoln committed against the South and especially Booth's home state of Maryland made Lincoln dead.

Lincoln committed treason according to the US Constitution. Article lll section 3.

Lincoln trashed the Constitution that he swore to uphold in his Presidential oath.

Booth really never even committed any crime.

[SkirmishNotes]

I would say the main reason for lincoln death was he was the most powerful person in union goverment and the south wanted revenge thus john wilkes booth killing lincoln

I agree with your point about Lincoln's assassination, but wouldn't it be simpler to say that Booth believed that the Union must be defeated at any cost, and that Lincoln was the primary symbol of the Union enemy.

I wonder if this assassination, after the defeat of Confederate Armies, could be considered terrorism by today's standards...

[Natty]

I wonder if this assassination, after the defeat of Confederate Armies, could be considered terrorism by today's standards...

You might want to check your dates... Only Lee had surrendered his army of Northern Virginia. There were still several other armies in the field.

The Civil War wasn't actually over until Pres Andrew Johnson declared it, August 20, 1866.

This was over a year after Lincoln was 'arrested' for his war crimes.

The Union was trying to kill Confederate President Jefferson Davis and members of his cabinet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlgren_Affair

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.
Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

If you want examples of Terrorism that is exactly what Sherman did.