I agree that President Jackson attempt was for pure control with his attempt to force his will upon the American government. However, I did not completely agree with President Lincoln's Act in its entirety as there was not enough enforced upon the south to show allegiance to the union. This made it seem as he was trying to please all versus standing strong as a leader in victory. In a sense that could have shown weakness with another attempt to overthrow the union again.…
Now these states had seceded from the Union and was beginning to create the Confederate states of America. But Lincoln was not about to give up that easy. He was not going to allow them to secede because of four reasons. One; physically the states could not separate. Meaning that even if they did secede then they still would be connected to the north and vise-versa.…
Another great thing that Lincoln did was he allowed blacks to fight in the Union Army. A picture of some of these black soldiers can be seen in Document 7. Once the war became a war over slavery, free blacks in the north wanted to help slaves in the South to gain their independence and they did this by fighting in the Civil War with the Union Army. This was a great plan by Lincoln, because the blacks had a very strong determination to abolish slavery, there for driving them to want to win the Civil War for the Union. Because of this, black soldiers fought very hard and battle and help the Union to win the war (Document 7).…
1- Abraham Lincoln wanted to fight the Civil War because he wanted to “save the Union”. He did not want the Union to secede and would do anything to keep it as a part of the United States. 2- Jefferson Davis wanted the South to secede from the Union because he believed that the government was being unjust and if they secede they would have peace. The government became destructive to them, and as a right of the people, Davis argument was that people had the right to alter or abolish bad governments.…
I think that Abraham Lincoln based his decision more on military reasons. Lincoln had two military reasons to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. The slaves were helping the South in the war. General Benjamin Butler wrote a note to President Lincoln telling him some of the major military news, this quote is directly from that note. "In the enemy's hands these…
Before the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Lincoln had to deal with some issues he did not agree with; for example, Congress passed the First and Second Confiscations Acts. The First Confiscation Act was not very explicit when it came to the freedom of slaves, but it allowed the Union army to seize any rebel property and since slaves were considered property they were able to take them. The Second Confiscation Act was set forth to punish treason and rebellion against the United States and anyone charged with treason would be put to trial. However, Lincoln did not like this as he felt this violated Article III, section 3 of the Constitution. He felt this way because Congress could only punish those who were corrupt throughout their…
Lincoln had to decide how to handle this act that the south done. Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteer troops to fight the Southern rebellion, causing Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee then seceded, refusing to fight their fellow Southerners and claiming Lincoln had overreached his authority because Congress was not in session and therefore could not authorize a war. Lincoln didn’t know much about fighting a war and the affairs but he went and self-taught himself by reading military war book at the library of congress but didn’t learn everything from the books he learned from some of the generals and learning that destroying the enemy was more important than capturing the confederates capital. Lincoln when after Major General George B. McClellan;…
His approach towards the South in terms of being too lenient with them was evident when, “President Lincoln had authorized loyalist governments in Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee as the Union came to control large parts of those states and advocated a ten percent plan that would allow elections after ten percent of the voters in any state took an oath of future loyalty to the Union,” (Fitzgerald). For many members in Congress, this was considered as too lenient and it did not warrant all voters in rebellion states to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. From this inception, we can speculate that the future political moves of the country would come at the expense of not properly insuring the protection and freedoms of formerly enslaved African Americans in the South. It also comes to no surprise that some historians have deemed the Reconstruction era as a “shameful period in American history.” Stammp states that, “various historians have called this phase of American history ‘The Tragic Era,’ ‘The Dreadful Decade,’ and the ‘Blackout of Honest Government,” (p. 4).…
This summarizes the way some soldiers felt. Abraham Lincoln’s legacy and reputation continues to be a paramount for the United States until today. He stood up and fought for what he thought it was right. His main goal was to preserve the Union by bringing the South and North together. The Emancipation Proclamation and the freeing of the slaves helped the United States to stay…
Have you ever felt like you weren’t being treated fairly? Like you weren’t treated equally because you don’t live like someone else. You feel frustrated because nothing ever goes your way. You always have to get your way by someone else getting theirs. In 1860 the South seceded from the union.…
This demonstrated the President’s executive war powers. “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Lincoln had long struggled with slavery and viewed it as wrong and immoral. He had no power to do anything about it without the approval of congress though. During the civil war, he was able to issue the Proclamation under his power as commander in…
When Abraham Lincoln proposed the Emancipation Proclamation, it was more of a noble act of morality than it was a violation of the states rights. Lincoln knew that the best course of action, and the choice with the most moral standing, was freeing the slaves. Or, at least, clearing the way for the emancipation process to begin and gradually abolishing slavery. Even though the reason that Lincoln proposed the proclamation was to get states to return to the Union, he still believed that slavery was wrong. Lincoln knew that it was an evil idea and wanted to make sure that it did not spread any more than it already has.…
Union President Abraham Lincoln’s ratification of the thirteenth amendment will completely devastate the South’s economy and as a result, four million African Americans are set free in the South. President Abraham Lincoln, a civil war hero had many challenges to face post-Civil war. One was trying to restore the Union. His Reconstruction plan was to reunite the Union.…
Reconstruction began throughout the nation but mostly in the South following the civil war in 1865. It had many widely positive and negative consequences within the period that were felt both short term and long term for the North and the South which would ultimately lead to the ending of Reconstruction period. In this essay I will compare and contrast the many sides of the Reconstruction period from Presidential changes, corruption of government, freedoms of blacks, rebuilding of a nation and the end results of the Reconstruction period. President Abraham Lincoln wanted to help bring together the Union as peacefully as possible with little waves in the South. The South was in much need of a rebuilt as most of it was destroyed in the war.…