Abraham Lincoln was one of the United States of America’s most well known and successful presidents in its history. Lincoln had a very different view on slavery than the average southerner or white American. He was very much against slavery because he found it to be immoral. His views changed on slavery over time after he was elected president. The cause of his views changing were influenced by the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas Nebraska Act. In the era of Lincoln’s inauguration, he originally thought that he would be able to end slavery without using violence which he stated in his first inauguration address. Slavery then resulted in a civil war which changed Lincoln’s thinking into creating the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. At the
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and he says in doing this there is no reason for violence to breakout. He was telling the people not to get involved in any sort of war unless they have permission by the national government. “In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it forced upon by national authority.” (Page 247 Lincoln's first Inaugural address) Lincoln thought that he was going to be able to end slavery without using violence. He was trying as hard as he possibly could to not allow for a civil war. Lincoln was clearly willing to allow slavery to prevail in order to not destroy the union with violence in worries of a secession. His original mindset started to shift from nonviolence to violence because he thought it would be impossible to develop the union into a free country without forcing war. Lincoln was upset by the Kansas Nebraska act which was reinforced by Douglas which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 because it opened the midwest to more slavery. Lincoln’s plans of ending slavery were abolished because of the Kansas Nebraska act. Douglas and Lincoln had it out for each other because Douglas kept getting in the way of Lincoln ending slavery. This shifted into the second era of Lincoln’s presidency which was the influence of Lincoln starting a civil
and he says in doing this there is no reason for violence to breakout. He was telling the people not to get involved in any sort of war unless they have permission by the national government. “In doing this there needs to be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none unless it forced upon by national authority.” (Page 247 Lincoln's first Inaugural address) Lincoln thought that he was going to be able to end slavery without using violence. He was trying as hard as he possibly could to not allow for a civil war. Lincoln was clearly willing to allow slavery to prevail in order to not destroy the union with violence in worries of a secession. His original mindset started to shift from nonviolence to violence because he thought it would be impossible to develop the union into a free country without forcing war. Lincoln was upset by the Kansas Nebraska act which was reinforced by Douglas which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 because it opened the midwest to more slavery. Lincoln’s plans of ending slavery were abolished because of the Kansas Nebraska act. Douglas and Lincoln had it out for each other because Douglas kept getting in the way of Lincoln ending slavery. This shifted into the second era of Lincoln’s presidency which was the influence of Lincoln starting a civil