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Abraham Lincoln's Role In The Civil War

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Civil War has ended for a long time ago, but it still was a good history lesson for all students in America. There was a lot of people, who have contributed to the war. There were two people that everyone could not fail to mention about Abraham Lincoln, who was the sixteenth President of the United States. And Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was the Lieutenant General of the Confederate. Abraham Lincoln was born on the twelfth of February 1809, in a low literate family with the tradition of farming and wood chopping. At a young age, Lincoln did not have much chance to pick up knowledge besides the books which he borrowed from his neighbors and friends. Lincoln’s father was unhappy with that and labeled Lincoln as “lazy” because Lincoln was …show more content…

In the Confederate, their idea was opposite with Lincoln’s idea. From the beginning of the war, the Confederate did not want to free slavery because they thought that it would prevent the uniting of the country. The purpose of Emancipation Proclamation was to get more power for Lincoln to free slavery because he understands that at the moment, the Constitution limited the power of Federal government to free the slave. Lincoln stated that as the President of the United States of America, he has enough constitutional rights to create the law in the Civil War period. Lincoln wrote in the Emancipation Proclamation that the Union would use the army, and appropriate punishment to whom try to against the free slavery …show more content…

In the speech at Peoria, Illinois on Oct 16, 1854, Lincoln said:” Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My feelings will not admit of this; and if mine would, we well know that those of the vast mass of white people will not. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded, cannot be safely disregarded. We can not, then, make them equals.” From this speech, most people will change their mind about Lincoln, he wants to free slavery, but he does not want to give them all rights as white men. Comparing to this idea of Lincoln, Forrest got the same idea, but Forrest does not want to free

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It did not free the 45,000 slaves in the devoted border states, the 275,000 slaves in Union settled Tennessee, and the slaves ordered by the Union Army in Louisiana and Virginia. Before the Emancipation Proclamation the Union’s war goal was to keep the country united and stated that slaves in territories still in rebellion were freed and encouraged them to join the Union battalion. After the Proclamation the Union’s war goal was to keep the country united and abolishing slavery in the South. This was only enforced to states that had break away from the Union and not affecting the devoted border states. The freedom promised to the slaves relied only on the victory of the Union in the war.

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Name: NISSI EKANEM Date: 05/08/2018 CRN: 58679 DBQ ESSAY Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for Union and Emancipation, 1861–1865 Even though Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the president that "abolished" slavery, it is also important to remember that there were two sides of the story. “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others, I would also do that”. This quote is from Abraham Lincoln's letter to newspaperman Horace Greeley.

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Lincoln was confident about his beliefs of the end of slavery especially when he had wrote out a letter to an author but he never sent it. The letter Lincoln never sent stated that Americans traveling thousands of miles only to capture and bring home the African Americans just to make them slaves is brought upon us by the black race (Danoff 49). Lincoln was furious with the author’s statement and retaliated back with sarcasm. After many states had reestablished their state governments or prepared to they were creating state constitutions that abolished slavery (Brands 3). Life was unfair for African Americans, especially those who were free.

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In this election, Lincoln and Douglas had some series of debates over slavery. Although Lincoln never exactly stated that he wanted to abolish slavery, much of the South believed he was an Abolitionist. At his speech in 1858 in Springfield Illinois, Lincoln wanted the nation to be one thing or another, meaning all free or all slave, because it couldn’t keep going on how it was, else it would fall apart. In his speech, Lincoln said, “...but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other” (Doc G).

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Originally from the South, Lincoln grew up around slavery and racism. However, his main concern was his country. In a speech, Lincoln expressed that, although he believed slavery was morally wrong, “he did not expect the Union to be dissolved; he did not expect the house to fall; but he did expect it would cease to be divided. As a result, it will become all one thing or all the other” (Document 6). Lincoln wanted what was right for the country, to become a more unified nation.

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Lincoln was well educated over current case-law problems pertaining too slave and free states. Over one of the worst decisions ever made by the Supreme Court, the Dred Scott decision threatened to bring slavery into the North. Lincoln was stressing the fact that if something wasn’t done, slavery would no doubt trickle out of the South, and into the rest of America. While the Supreme Court was fumbling and backtracking, there was another law that brought slavery closer. The Kansas-Nebraska bill overrode previous legislation and allowed white male residents to vote on whether to permit slavery therein.

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In this quotation, Lincoln is trying to convey the idea of freedom and liberty for all. Due to the fact that slavery violates everything America offers as a nation, it should clearly be deemed

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President Lincoln stated that: “if I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it,..., and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do it.”. This quote clearly shows that the freedom of slaves was not his concern and unnecessary if it did not help the Union; as the result, slavery still exists if there is no war. Free slave from bondage should be a Great Emancipator’s primary goal and he will do his best to achieve it no matter what, but president Lincoln’s thought differed from that because all he cares was the Union. Although he had many times admitting himself an anti-slavery but his words and thoughts obviously prove that he is

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In fact he said that if he could save the Union without freeing any slaves he would do it. Lincoln did believe that all men (including black men) should have the right to improve their condition in society and to get paid for their labor. However, he did not believe that black men could

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Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” is an eminent source of American literature. The principles of human equality and civil war sacrifices are highlighted in his speech. Throughout his address, he invokes the principle of equality contained in the Declaration of Independence, a document made 87 years prior to his speech, that declared equal rights to all people in America. To strengthen his speech, he consistently uses rhetorical devices in order to powerfully convey his gratitude to the soldiers that fought during the civil war and his hope for a national rebirth.

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One reason freeing the slaves had a moral impact on Lincoln was his religion. When Lincoln was running for president he spoke about what he plans on doing. In his speech he states,"We think Slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where

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Southern states desired an expansion of slavery and needed it to expand. he secession of these Southern States made a huge impact on the division of the Country. Furthermore, Southern states felt threatened that slavery would end. Lincoln was not an Abolitionist, but southerners feared by not expanding it would lead to an end of slavery.

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Lincoln thought that because slavery was talking away a person's freedom slavery should exist in the Union, Lincoln made this clear when he said that the Union was hypocritical because it says that it is free but still has people as slaves. Lincoln thought that it was wrong to take away someone's freedom and that's what the south was doing with slavery but they didn't want to get rid of it because it was how they got wealthy. In one of lincoln's speeches he said that he wanted to see the spread of slavery come to a stop. When Lincoln said this he was talking about the expansion that was taking place which made there be more slave and free states there were many slave owners who wanted the expansion because it meant more territory and that also meant more places there could be slavery. Lincoln played a role in the civil war and this was shown when many southern slave states succeeded between the short time between the election and the inauguration of

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The American Civil War was the deadliest battle that Americans have ever faced, more deadlier than all the other wars we have ever fought. The ideas of south slavery clashed against the anti-slavery notion of the north. Throughout the war, people changed their opinions of the war, through soul searching after witnessing so much dead, or the idea that people had to fight their own loved ones. Other people were adamant in their beliefs that what they were fighting for was right. During the war, Abraham Lincoln had the unfortunate responsibility of presiding over the unstable Union.

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This shows that Abraham Lincoln wants the nation to be full of equality. With this being said, African-Americans should no longer be judged for the color of their skin, or be kept as slaves because of the color of their skin. All things considered, before the Civil War, nay people didn’t have freedom, rights, and many African-Americans were mistreated and kept as slaves. That is why the Civil War had such a big affect in

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