Which of the following is true of Lincoln’s assassination? Check all of the boxes that apply.

Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, and Lincoln was shot on April 14, so the assassination came just days later. John Wilkes Booth, a Southerner and Confederate sympathizer, shot Lincoln. Andrew Johnson—not Ulysses S. Grant—became president, and no new election was held to choose Lincoln’s immediate successor.

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