Question

1. what was the main goal behind the assassination of president lincoln?to encourage the south to end the war and rejoin the unionto protest the civil war and the mass casualties in the southto prevent the passage of the thirteenth amendmentto cause chaos in the north so the south could win the war

Explanation:

John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, was a Confederate sympathizer. He believed killing Lincoln would create chaos in the Union (North), allowing the defeated South to regroup and win the ongoing Civil War. The other options are incorrect: Lincoln pushed for the South's return to the Union (so the first option is opposite), the assassination was not a protest of casualties, and the 13th Amendment had already been ratified before the assassination.

Answer:

to cause chaos in the North so the South could win the war