Why did John Wilkes boo assassinate President Lincoln Booth Lincoln was too easy on southerners. Booth head lost in a series of slavery. Debates with Lincoln. Booth was angry about the confederate defeat booth was a confederate official.
Booth believed that by assassinating Lincoln, he could help the Confederate cause and potentially spark a resurgence of the Confederacy. He saw Lincoln as an obstacle to the Southern way of life and wanted to avenge the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War. Booth was also motivated by a desire for personal glory and notoriety.
