Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Lincoln?

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O Booth thought Lincoln was too easy on Southerners.
O Booth had lost in a series of slavery debates with Lincoln.
O Booth was angry about the Confederate defeat.
O Booth was a Confederate official.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: O Booth thought Lincoln was too easy on Southerners.

John Wilkes Booth was a Confederate sympathizer who believed that Lincoln's policies were too lenient towards the South following the Civil War. He saw the assassination as a way to avenge the South and to disrupt the reconstruction efforts that he believed were detrimental to the Southern states.