Multiple choice

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in

  1. 1865

  2. 1869

  3. 1895

  4. 1896

  5. 1897
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Explanation

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died the next morning, April 15, 1865, making him the first U.S. president to be assassinated. This occurred just days after the end of the Civil War and during his second term as president.

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