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Grade 8 Civil War — Battles & Emancipation — Reading Comprehension — Assassination of Lincoln Free printable reading comprehension passage about assassination of lincoln. Students read the passage and answer questions to build understanding. For 8th Grade (ages 13–14).
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Assassination of Lincoln LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. On 14 April 1865, five days after Appomattox, John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Lincoln died the next morning. Booth was a well-known actor and Confederate sympathiser, and he acted as part of a wider plot that also targeted the vice president and the secretary of state, though only the attack on Secretary Seward was carried out and he survived. Booth was cornered and killed twelve days later, and four conspirators were hanged. Lincoln's funeral train carried his body seventeen hundred miles to Illinois, past crowds in every town. The assassination brought Andrew Johnson to the presidency, whose lenient approach to the defeated South and clashes with Congress shaped Reconstruction and led to the first presidential impeachment. Questions: 1 Who was John Wilkes Booth, and what was the wider plot? 2 How long after Appomattox did the assassination happen? 3 How did the assassination affect Reconstruction? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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Assassination of Lincoln LITERACY · 8TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. On 14 April 1865, five days after Appomattox, John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Lincoln died the next morning. Booth was a well-known actor and Confederate sympathiser, and he acted as part of a wider plot that also targeted the vice president and the secretary of state, though only the attack on Secretary Seward was carried out and he survived. Booth was cornered and killed twelve days later, and four conspirators were hanged. Lincoln's funeral train carried his body seventeen hundred miles to Illinois, past crowds in every town. The assassination brought Andrew Johnson to the presidency, whose lenient approach to the defeated South and clashes with Congress shaped Reconstruction and led to the first presidential impeachment. Questions: 1 Who was John Wilkes Booth, and what was the wider plot? 2 How long after Appomattox did the assassination happen? 3 How did the assassination affect Reconstruction? www.littleactivity.com 8th Grade · Literacy
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Feelings LITERACY · KINDERGARTEN Name Date Find and circle these hidden words in the grid. Q G A W X C S N K S R D N N A T W D K W V U S L G T P S X Q W O M S Y R Q W A C D R K Y H Q Y J G D M P X P S L Z F B A T N J P M T Y J X A P J I A Z A J A B R H P Y H Z M N S Z F I I S O A S L I Y R Words to find: HAPPY SAD ANGRY CALM PROUD SHY www.littleactivity.com Kindergarten · Literacy
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