The assassination of President Lincoln in 1865 proved that

Question

A. the United States had not wanted Lincoln as its president.
B. Southerners still held many of the resentments that had caused the Civil War.
C. Northerners refused to accept the United States as a nation of equals.
D. Northerners deeply resented abolitionists in the Republican Party.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. Southerners still held many of the resentments that had caused the Civil War.

The assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer, highlighted the deep divisions and animosities that persisted in the United States after the Civil War, particularly in relation to the issues surrounding slavery and Southern grievances.