Murderers, Victims and the Quest for Power

Directions: Complete the following chart about different assassinations in world history. On the other side, choose at least
four (4) additional example of an assassination which occurred during the twentieth century and complete the chart. *For
extra credit, you may then prepare a booklet using computer and construction paper about all of the different
assassinations. Each page should contain a picture of the victim, information regarding the death (who, why, when, where,
how, etc.). The booklet must be neat, organized and creative. Information should be typed and have few to no spelling
errors.

Victim Assassin(s) Problem Goal Result

Caesar was becoming

To remove the Civil war – at the
too popular. Some
Julius Caesar (44 Brutus, Cassius, and political threat of end, Octavius
Romans feared he
B.C.) Rome others Caesar becoming Augustus became not
would become a
King. king, but emperor.
tyrant.

Storm of protest
Becket, as halted Henry’s
Archbishop of attempts to control
Canterbury, defended To eliminate the Church privileges.
Thomas A. Beckett Knights of King the right of the pope opposition and to The shrine of St.
(1170 A.D.) England Henry II to appoint bishops in control the power of Thomas a Becket
England and thereby the Church. became one of the
opposed the policies most famous in
of Henry II Christendom.

Lincoln freed the To restore the

Reconstruction policy
Abraham Lincoln slaves and tried to conditions and way
John Wilkes Booth of his successor was
(1865 A.D.) U.S.A. hold the Union of life of the
hurtful to the South.
together antebellum South.

He faced the question

of nationality and of
Francis Ferdinant, This was the
Group of Serbian restructuring his To clarify territorial
Archduke of Austira immediate cause of
Conspirators empire. Serbia boundaries.
(1914 A.D.) World War I.
disagreed with his
ideas.
This Indian religious
Gandhi became a
leader stood for pace
martyr and tensions
Editor of an extremist and brotherhood, To eliminate the
Gandhi Inida (1948) between the Muslims
weekly paper especially between symbol of unity
and Hindus did lessen
Muslims and Hindus
– for awhile.
in India and Pakistan.
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