1. Abraham Lincoln
When Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, America was never the same. Lincoln was mainly remembered for his great roll in the Civil War, and his written documents, the Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamations. When growing up in school, teachers made Lincoln seem to be such a great leader, but after reading Thomas DiLorenzo's The Real Lincoln, Lincoln was shown for what he really was. He is generally associated with the freedom of slaves, keeping the Union together and being an all around great president. Lincoln wasn't a bad man, or a bad president, he was just a man with views jut like the rest of us. Just like any other American man would do, he did what he had to do to succeed.
I don't think Lincoln much of a "great emancipator" like everyone said he was. He suggested that they should do away with slavery, which was part of his agenda. This idea would cause him to win against anyone. His true thoughts on slavery wasn't abolition, but he didn't want to keep it the same either. He supported a movement known as "Colonization" which was based on the idea to free the slaves and rid them all of the U.S. by sending them to Liberia. A "great emancipator" would want these freed slaves to have a chance to live out the american dream.
Slavery was not Lincoln's main concern, the state of the Union was. Lincoln had a chance to free slaves that were in Missouri, which had been taken by the Union in 1861 and was then named Union territory. The slaves that were in this territory and could have been freed. John Fremont, the Union General, created the Marshall Law. The Marshall law said that anyone who didn't cooperate with the Union Army would have their property taken away and their slaves freed. When Lincoln heard this, he fired Fremont immediately. .
Lincoln's true thoughts of racial equality come forward in a debate with Senator Stephen Douglas in Ottawa. Again, he contradicts himself on where his own stance on slavery is.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S (1861-1865) who brought the Union to victory in the Civil War. ... Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. ... The Lincoln family had been in America since 1637 - all were real frontier people. ... In 1834 Lincoln was elected to the Illinois state legislature. ... Because of this Lincoln was able to easily win the Presidency. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. ... When Lincoln was seven his family moved to Indiana. ... In November he won but resigned because he wanted a seat in the United States Senate, where he thought he could make a real difference. ... Lincoln attended Ford's Theater that day. ... May Abraham Lincoln rest in peace. ...
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S (1861-1865) who brought the Union to victory in the Civil War. ... Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. ... The Lincoln family had been in America since 1637 - all were real frontier people. ... In 1834 Lincoln was elected to the Illinois state legislature. ... Because of this Lincoln was able to easily win the Presidency. ...
The question is does Abraham Lincoln deserve the title " The Great Emancipator?" ... Lincoln knew that he could not change the South's laws on slavery but he did not really care about that Lincoln wanted to stop slavery from spreading to the North. ... Lincoln also knew that blacks could not live here in America so what Lincoln's plan was to send all the slaves back and relocate them back into Africa or unoccupied lands. ... Abraham Lincoln also did not necessarily free any slave at all. ... Slaves were also still considered as an inferior race, who made no real living for some ...
Examining Lincoln's attitude toward slavery also opens up political and cultural contentions at large in the American nation. ... Now in order to understand Lincoln's opinion on how the issue of slavery should be dealt with while adhering to the Constitution, one must look at Lincoln's opinion of race. ... This is true because Lincoln himself supported a law in Illinois that forbade intermarriage relations between blacks and whites, stating in one the Lincoln-Douglas debates to counter Douglas's argument that he was favoring the social equality of black people. ... This new...
The death of Abraham Lincoln's Mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. ... I will take a look at Abraham Lincoln's relationship with his Father, Thomas Lincoln. ... There was also a third Lincoln sibling. His name was Tom Lincoln. Tom passed away in his infancy, and this was Abraham's first real personal dealings with death. ...
The Day Lincoln Was Shot List of Characters Note: All ages are as of April 14, 1865 Lincoln Family Abraham Lincoln- assassinated on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at age of 56- 16th President of the U.S.A.... Sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln was at Ford's Theatre at the time of the shooting enjoying a show with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and two friends. ... He told others of this dream and he said that he never real thought anything of it, but in reality he was terrified by it. ... Lincoln was to make an appearance at Ford's Theatre. ... Lincoln would be decl...
Andrew Johnson had succeeded the un-elected presidency from Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated in 1865. When he succeeded the presidency upon Lincoln's death, Johnson strove to carry out Lincoln's policy, but lacked his political skill to do so. Before Lincoln's death, the Reconstruction after the war of America was still in progress. ... Andrew Johnson had to deal with the Reconstruction of America after Lincoln was assassinated. This post-Civil War Reconstruction of the South was the real cause of the conflict between the President and the Congress. ...