Lincoln Movie Historical Accuracy

The movie, Lincoln, produced by Steven Spielberg, portrays the United States in another devastating year in the war against the North and the South where Abraham Lincoln brought together his best men, and his thoughts, to put the country through one of the best turning points in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and the House of Representatives succeeded in approving the Thirteenth Amendment. With the Thirteenth Amendment passing, it helped create a spark, which in turn lead to General Lee surrendering at Appomattox. After celebrating their notorious win, Lincoln got shot at Ford’s theater and died the next morning. By this, the movie Lincoln was overall historically accurate because it correctly displayed major events that happened during that time period. Although the movie consisted mostly of historical accuracies, there some things that were inaccurate. For example, they …show more content…
One that was early on was that Abraham Lincoln called his wife Molly. This is proved to be true. Toward the end of the movie, the House of Representatives voted on the Thirteenth Amendment and it passed 119 to 56. This number is exact and reached the two-thirds majority vote to pass. Also when they went into the vote, the Democrats wanted to postpone the vote because they thought that secesh delegates were in Washington. A man ran to the White House and had Lincoln write a note saying that there were no delegates in Washington. This is, in fact, very true and, they even got the wording right. Thaddeus Stevens insulted a lot of Democrats throughout the film, and when asked what the Thirteenth Amendment meant to him, he twisted his views on it to fit others needs. This is very true and had a major effect on the vote. In the movie, whenever someone questioned Lincoln, he always replied with a story. Many historians have proved this to be true, and many stories that he tells in the movie are ones he said in real