The main goal behind the assassination of President Lincoln is to protest the Civil War and the mass casualties in the South.
Answer: Option D
<u>Explanation:</u>
President Abraham Lincoln was killed by a very famous stage actor John Wikes Booth in the year 1865. He shot Lincoln in the forehead direct and said that he wanted to take revenge for the south which had lost in the civil war and for the people who were killed in the south during the civil war in the United States. After shooting Lincoln, he said that revenge for south was taken. Booth was also killed by the official authorities later.
Option: to protest the Civil War and the mass casualties in the South
Explanation:
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington in 1865 while watching a play. John Booth was born in Maryland and became a successful actor in 1860s. He remained as a Confederate sympathizer throughout his life, despite not going in the war against the North. Lincoln decision to abolish the constitution and the casualties of the war in the South disturbed John Booth.
The Atlantic slave trade was the result of, among other things, labour shortage, itself in turn created by the desire of European colonists to exploit New World land and resources for capital profits.
