The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
A. involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.
B. had been planned at the highest levels of the Confederate government.
C. saw John Wilkes Booth convicted of the murder of the president.
D. was intended to bring Andrew Johnson into the presidency.
E. brought a Radical Republican to the presidency.
Answer: A
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