Abraham Lincoln Dbq

“ Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”, this was a quote from Abraham Lincoln. (BrainyQuote, Xplore)You may know Lincoln, who was the 16th President of the United States. He was a magnificent president who held a major role in the abolishment to slavery. Although, he had many setbacks along the way; that all started with his beliefs, Lincoln had believed slavery should be abolished. Until, his assassination hindered the advancement of the right for the newly freed slaves because of the views of Andrew Johnson, the radical republicans and Jim Crow Laws. Who was Lincoln? Lincoln was Born in 1809, in Kentucky. He was known for being a hard worker and was always trying to support his family

Jim Crow Laws, are laws that were set in the South that demanded segregation between every aspect of life you can think of; if they could be separated, they were by set of law. There were signs everywhere stating if the public items were for “whites” or “colored” people. There were separations of people on buses, schools, parks, stores, drinking fountains, restrooms, and practically everything you can think of that involves the socialization to others that may not be your race. This law came to be because it made colored people the option to have “separate but equal” treatments under law, but there was really nothing equal about them. Colored people’s quality of anything they got was five steps under what you would see whites encountering in everyday life. These laws were enforced for over half of a century beginning in the 1890s time frame. As words from Diane Nash, in her interview for Freedom Riders, she stated that,” Travel in the segregated South for blacks was humiliating. The very fact that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use the public facilities that white people used”. Diane Nash was not wrong either. The segregation laws between these two “groups” of people was borderline awful. (Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,