After successfully becoming the president of the United States and leading the Union to victory in the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Lincoln's reputation in the country reached its peak. After his four-year term ended, he was re-elected without any controversy. In 1864, he was re-elected as the president of the United States.
However, this did not mean that he was loved by all the people. Before Lincoln could implement his post-war policies, on Easter Sunday, April 14, 1865, at 10: 15 pm, just five days after the surrender of the Confederate army, Lincoln was shot dead in Ford's Theater in Washington.
John Booth, a famous actor who sympathized with the South, sneaked into the presidential box and shot Lincoln when the presidential bodyguards left.
John Booth came from a famous family in the American theater. His superb acting skills had always been the object of female fans, but at the same time, he was also a staunch supporter of the Southern Union. During the Civil War, Booth gathered a group of people to act in secret.
This group once conspired in an apartment in Washington to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for captured Confederate soldiers, but these plans, like many other plots, came to nothing.
Two or three days before Lincoln was assassinated, Booth was almost drunk every day. His former conspiracy group was in tatters, with only two or three people left.
At noon on April 14, John Booth went to Ford's Theater to pick up the mail. He accidentally saw a poster saying that Lincoln and Ulysses Simpson Grant, the Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, would be attending the evening program. Booth was immediately ecstatic and immediately gathered his friends to carry out their final plan: to shoot the President!
Booth calmly entered the presidential box at 10 pm. Originally, there was a lock on the box, but the lock was broken a few days ago, and no one reported it.
As John Booth was an actor, the President's guards did not stop him, and John Parker, the policeman, who was supposed to be guarding the passage from the hall to the box, seemed to have no interest in watching the play, so he retired to another room to drink.
In this way, under a series of "coincidences," John Booth smoothly entered President Lincoln's box. The President of the United States of America, Lincoln, under the protection of the presidential bodyguards and the police, was unknowingly shot in the back while he was watching the show.
The murderer of President Lincoln, John Booth, took advantage of the chaos to escape. However, only ten days later, John Booth, who had already escaped Washington and entered Virginia, was found and shot on the spot.
After President William Henry Harrison and President Zachary Taylor succumbed to illness, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The death rate of the President of the United States was surprisingly high.
This time, President Lincoln's assassination seemed to be the crazy personal act of an actor who sympathized with the southern forces. Even if someone noticed too many coincidences, they could only suspect that it was the revenge of the southern slave owners.
However, Abraham Lincoln, who was brought back to life by Chen Mo like Zachary Taylor, didn't think so when he woke up in the Brooklyn manor.
Those southern slave owners had been trying to take his life since he came to power, but they had never succeeded. Why did they succeed so coincidentally after the war?
Compared to the power of the southern slave owners, Lincoln was more suspicious of another group that was not conspicuous but held more power.
And the information that Chen Mo grasped also confirmed this point.
This assassination seemed to be the personal act of John Booth, but there was an invisible hand secretly manipulating behind the scenes. However, even John Booth himself did not know that his actions had been secretly influenced and manipulated.
All of this seemed to be an opportunity given to him by God. It was his own spontaneous decision, and with careful preparation and heaven-defying luck, he successfully completed the feat that the southern slave owners had tried countless times but failed to successfully complete. In fact, he was completely used as a tool by someone else!
The real mastermind behind this assassination was in fact the same group of people behind the scenes who caused the deaths of the previous two presidents!
They held huge wealth in their hands and wanted to use financial means to completely control the United States economy!
To be precise, they were bankers from Europe!
Although the United States was independent from the United Kingdom, whether it was the United Kingdom, France, or other European countries, they did not give up on the infiltration and control of this emerging country.
Compared to Europe, the history and heritage of the United States were much worse. The United States was originally the descendant of European colonists and immigrants, but most of the first American immigrants were poor people at the bottom of Europe.
Today, most of the bankers and financiers who controlled huge wealth in the United States were from the European continent, and the rest were mostly the agents of European bankers. There were very few bankers who really developed in the United States, and even these local bankers, while growing stronger, had more or less connections with European forces.
Since 1833, President Madison closed the second private central bank of the United States, which the bankers had painstakingly re-established, the Second Bank of the United States. After killing two presidents in a row, they failed to achieve their goal of re-establishing a private central bank. Instead, the Whig Party, which they had spent a lot of effort to support and led by their spokesman, Henry Clay, completely collapsed.
The European bankers saw that the United States economy was becoming more and more independent, and the hope of establishing a private central bank was getting slimmer and slimmer. The European bankers were unwilling to sit back and watch the United States economy get out of their hands.
The European capitalists, who manipulated the situation in Europe behind the scenes and used money to wrestle with the king, were not forced to retreat by the current situation. They had fought with the royal families and governments in Europe for many years, and could successfully become the big creditor of the British royal family, forcing the British to borrow money from them through a private central bank. The European bankers had rich experience in dealing with the current situation.
The establishment of the Bank of Scotland took advantage of the "Nine Years War" between the United Kingdom and France, when the British government was in financial difficulties. Through clever operations, they successfully obtained the permission of Congress and obtained the concession granted by the king.
In addition, countries such as France, Sweden, and the Netherlands also established private joint-stock banks in the nature of central banks to provide financing and lending services for the royal family and currency issuance business.
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