Abraham Lincoln is one of the most, if not the most, celebrated American president of all time. “Honest Abe”, as he was called, took a stand in many different ways. He made the decision to fight to prevent the United States from falling apart, was a commander in chief in the Civil War, and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.2 Perhaps the greatest way that Lincoln took a stand was when he helped ratify the 13th amendment, the statement that abolished slavery in the U.S.A forever.
The Origins Of Slavery in the U.S. European settlers began to turn to African slaves in the early 17th century as a more plentiful and cheaper source of labor. At the time, they were using servants, which were mostly poorer Europeans. After the first
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He led the Union army through numerous battles, losses, and casualties. He also discovered something during the start of the war. The Constitution protected slavery during times of peace. But, he thought, in times of war, the commander of chief could abolish it as a military requirement.8 By mid-1862, Abraham had came to believe in the need to end slavery. Other than his hatred for the institution, he utterly felt that the South could not come back into the United States after attempting to sabotage …show more content…
Considered by a plethora of people his greatest speech, it is carved on a wall of the Lincoln Memorial. During the end of the speech, he set the tone for the United States’ Reconstruction. He said, “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all