Multiple choice

Which US President was assassinated just five days after the end of the civil war?

  1. Ronald Regan

  2. Richard Nixon

  3. John Adams

  4. Abraham Lincoln
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Explanation

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House effectively ended the American Civil War. Lincoln's death came at a time when the nation was beginning the process of Reconstruction.

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