How Did Lincoln Achieve His Goals

As of today we do not have slavery around in America. That does not mean we don't still have problems involving racism against people. Lincoln and Douglass had a goal to make this nation equal. They did in a way achieve their goal, but not to the full extent. Abraham Lincoln had a few important goals. One of which was for the war to end and ensure everlasting peace. Lincoln’s goal did in a way happen. His goal for the war to diminish happened and the civil war ended. Now, as his goal for the nation in becoming peaceful is still a work in progress. Abraham Lincoln believed in human rights. Lincoln decided to enact an act that would free all slaves, this is known as the Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery did get abolished in 1865. Lincoln is known as the “savior of the union and emancipator of slaves”. …show more content…
Slavery ended. That was one of his goals. Now as for how the Emancipation Proclamation worked, well it did not work as Lincoln thought. The proclamation did not free all slaves. This does not mean that his goal did not get achieved. Later on slavery still ends up abolished after this minor flaw. As for the whole “peaceful nation” that is still not happening. There is still much hate in the world today, even though slavery ended. People are still racist. People are still mean. That goal of his might never see the light of day. One can only hope. Frederick Douglass was a former slave. He was brought up in slavery and was known as one of the most “famous intellectuals of his time”. Douglass escaped slavery and became an anti-slavery activist. Douglass’s goal was for African Americans to be liberated. He did get his goal achieved. African Americans were in fact liberated. Douglass did make a change and had a huge influence. Hid goal for the African Americans did happen and they were