What did Booth yell after shooting President Lincoln?
"Sic semper tyrannis!"
"Viva la resistance!"
"Liberty or death!"
"Down with tyrants!"
Answer
After assassinating President Lincoln at Ford's Theater, John Wilkes Booth shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" This Latin phrase means "Thus always to tyrants." Booth was a Confederate sympathizer and believed that Lincoln was a tyrant who had betrayed the South. He hoped that his assassination would spark a Confederate uprising and lead to the end of the Civil War.
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