Abraham Lincoln And The Turning Point Of The Civil War

Question #2, Civil War & Reconstruction, Lincoln During the Civil War and Reconstruction Abraham Lincoln was very important to the time. Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War. Since he was president, he was in charge of how to deal with the Confederates and to keep other states from succeeding. Lincoln was against charging the succeeding states of treason because he wanted those states to come back into the Union and end the war. He wanted to do this however, without giving them slavery or recognizing them as their own independent country. Lincoln wanted to do what he thought was right and ignored his advisors when they said to repeal the Emancipation Proclamation. One of Lincoln’s agreements was that the succeeded states had …show more content…
The Battle of Antietam was considered the pivotal point of the Civil War. McClellan and his troops were successful in halting Lee’s army at Antietam, when two Union soldiers found a copy of Lee’s battle plans. This turning point in the war was similar to the turning point of World War II. In World War II, when the Japanese dropped their bombs at Pearl Harbor. Japan’s plan was to destroy or immobilize the Pacific fleet. The attack created a large controversy in the United States; do we go to war or not. This was the deciding factor; the United States decided on going to war. Both of these were a big turning point in each war and without them the turnout of the war could have been completely different. If we had not found Lee’s plans, we would not have known where his army would be and would not have been able to halt his troops. This win was very important to the morale of not only the Union troops, but the civilians in the north. The same goes for Pearl Harbor, without this war America might not have been pushed to the point to get fully involved in World War II. The outcomes of both of these wars greatly affected the future of the United