Abraham Lincoln-Douglas Debates

of confederate people. He took actions during the Civil War when he felt it was the right time no matter what was the limits. He used unprecedented power as commander in chief and he expanded the war powers by imposing a blockade on Confederate shipping ports, and suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus in order to arrest thousands of Confederate supporters. He called together 75,000 volunteers in ninety days to fight the war for him. For foreign policy, he tried to stop other countries to help Confederate (Tried by War).

Abraham Lincoln had made many decisions based on passing the Acts that brought people a better life. The Homestead Act signed into law in May 1862, allowing Americans and freed slaves, to ask for one hundred and sixty free acres

In each debate one person would open with an hour address, and the another one would speak for an hour and a half. The first person had thirty minutes of rebuttal. Although Lincoln lost the debates, these seven debates led him to the election as President of the United States. Stephen Douglas said Lincoln was "full of wit, facts, dates and the best stump-speaker with droll-ways and dry jokes in the west (Lincoln's Years in the Illinois Legislature) .” Lincoln was known as an successful storyteller and usually used little stories to make valuable ideas known to the common people, so that people can easily understand. He was a great at talking to people, who loved talking with people and could cause people to believe anything. Lincoln also used humor to make a point beneficially impact people. For instance, when he was speaking about a particular opponent he commented, "It's like the lazy preacher that used long sermons and the explanation was he gotta writin' and he was too lazy to stop (Lincoln's Years in the Illinois Legislature)

This evidence can support the opinion that he was indeed a one of the greatest president. During Lincoln’s presidency, the president, generals and armies use telegraph to update their new information with each other. However, during the Bull Run, Confederates cut the telegraph with Washington which cut the connections between Lincoln and his important generals. Instead, he opened a telegraphic dialog to communicate with his subordinate officer. Throughout history, it was quite impossible to have a president who was seating in the government and communicate with his forces in the field. Before General Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Lincoln used his strategy to take command. He employed telegraph to give direct orders to the forces in the field. The president kept using electronic messages after Lincoln found the general that they were looking for. The wire became one of the main ways to spread information. Lincoln received a message from Grant to Chief-of-Staff hillock saying that the draft riots of 1864 would waste the force, hence, he wired Grant to try his best to save