Abraham Lincoln's Downfall

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Abraham Lincoln was our best president because he stopped slavery, allowed black soldiers to fight for the union, he was the only President of the United States to hold a patent, and led the Union to victory in the American Civil War.

He didn’t think that white and blacks should have the same things as in schools, workplaces, and stores. He didn’t think they should have the same political rights as the whites. To end slavery he thought it would be good for the blacks to go to Africa or Central America to get away from the whites. He didn’t think that slavery was morally wrong though either but it was sanctioned by the Constitution.

May 22, 1849, Abraham Lincoln received a patent that was never manufactured but it was a device that lifted

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