Abraham Lincoln is one of the most influential people during the Civil war, and may even be integral for it to happen as we know it. This will be about why Abraham Lincoln is one of the most important people to the civil war. There are multiple reasons; three being that he help to inspire soldiers to keep fighting, secondly he created the Emancipation Proclamation which is one of the most important documents during the Civil War, finally his election was the last facter in starting the civil war.
The first reason is that he was the person that helped inspire others to keep fighting. During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln gave many speeches and addresses. One of these was after the Battle of Gettysburg where he said, “that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the
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This is very important because the Emancipation Proclamation did what most people know about what happened in the Civil war and what the North was fighting for, ending slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in America, and also ended the crisis that slave states and free states that caused the Civil War, and likely would have caused another Civil war if they kept the free and slave states; because Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation there was not another civil war. To show how important these are some differences that would happen if the the Emancipation Proclamation was never passed, or Abraham Lincoln gave up after the first attempt the U.S potentially could have had a second Civil War or slavery could still be in those slave states, or the Confederate States of America could be its own