Et Tu, Brute: Assassination – What Does It Solve?

To be completed after reading Act 2

Victim	Assassin(s)	Problem	Goal	Result
Julius Caesar (44 B.C.) Rome	Brutus, Cassius, and others	Caesar was becoming too popular. Some Romans feared he would become a tyrant.	To remove the political threat of Caesar becoming King.	Civil war – at the end, Octavious Augustus became not king, but emperor.
Thomas A. Beckett (1170 A.D.) England	Knights of King Henry II	Becket, as Archbishop of Canterbury, defended the right of the pope to appoint bishops in England and therby opposed the policies of Henry II	To eliminate the opposition and to control the power of the Church.	Storm of protest halted Henry’s attempts to control Church privileges. The shrine of St. Thomas a Becket became one of the most famous in Chritendom.
Abraham Lincoln (1865 A.D.) U.S.A.	John Wilkes Booth	Lincoln freed the slaves and tried to hold the Union together	To restore the conditions and way of life of the antebellum Sounth.	Reconstruction policy of his successor was hurtful ot the South.
Francis Ferdinant, Archduke of Austira (1914 A.D.)	Group of Serbian Conspirators	He faced the question of nationality and of restructuring his empire. Serbia disagreed with his ideas.	To clarify territorial boundaries.	This was the immediate couase of World War I.

Gandhi Inida (1948)	Editor of an extremist weekly paper	This Indian relifious leader stood for pace and brotherhood, especially between Muslims and Hindus in India and Pakistan.	To eliminate the symbol of unity	Gandhi became a martyr and tensions between the Muslims and Hindus did lesson – for awhile.
Anwar Sadat (1981)	Soldiers in Sadat’s army, religious extremeists	Sadat had recently begin a crackdown on Moslem fundamentalist terrorists.	To seek revenge and to east the structures	Vice-president Mubarak continued the rackdown and even more arrests took place.

Directions: Choose 1 additional example of an assassination and complete the chart.