The Lincoln Assassination Trials (1865)

Question 1

Samuel Mudd

Answer 1

an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Question 2

John Surratt, Jr.

Answer 2

was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.

Question 3

Mary Surratt

Answer 3

was an American boarding house owner who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Sentenced to death, she was hanged, becoming the first woman executed by the United States federal government.

Question 4

George Atzerodt

Answer 4

a conspirator, with John Wilkes Booth, in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Assigned to assassinate Vice-President Andrew Johnson, he lost his nerve and did not make an attempt.[3] He was executed along with three other conspirators by hanging.

Question 5

Lewis Powell

Answer 5

attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate United States Secretary of State William H. Seward, and was one of four people hanged for the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, and given his home state, Alabama, was the only assassination conspirator executed who had been from the Deep South.

Question 6

Edmund Spangler

Answer 6

watched Booth run out of the theater but didn’t say or do anything to stop him. was convicted as an accomplice.

Question 7

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Answer 7

The phrase Booth shouted after shooting Lincoln

Question 8

William H. Seward

Answer 8

~Abraham Lincoln appointed Seward his Secretary of State in 1861.
~On the night of April 14, 1865, Lewis Powell, an associate and co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth, attempted to assassinate Seward at his Washington D.C. home

Question 9

David Herold

Answer 9

an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. After guiding fellow conspirator Lewis Powell to the home of Secretary of State William H. Seward, whom Powell attempted to kill, Herold fled and met with Booth outside of Washington, D.C. They then proceeded to Surrattsville, Maryland where they picked up weapons that Mary Surratt had left earlier for them at her property. Since Booth had broken his leg earlier in the escape, Herold accompanied him to the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd. After Mudd set Booth’s leg, Herold and Booth continued their escape through Maryland and into Virginia, and Herold remained with Booth until the authorities found them.

Question 10

Conspiracy Laws

Answer 10

1. an agreement between at least 2 parties
2. to achieve an illegal goal
3. a knowledge of the conspiracy and participation in the conspiracy
4. at least one conspirator’s commission of an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy.

Question 11

Joseph Holt

Answer 11

the chief prosecutor in the trial of the accused conspirators before a military commission chaired by General David Hunter.

Question 12

Jefferson Davis

Answer 12

an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
~ didn’t get along with Lincoln