Lincoln Assassination Research Paper

Lincoln’s Assassination
Our 16th president was a great at what he did and he made a lasting impression of it as well, Abraham Lincoln, he was our first president to get assassinated and that took a toll on everyone and all the things that were going on at the time. The Civil War was going on and it lasted for three years and we lost so many good people during that war. It put a lot of stress on Lincoln and how he should handle it with care and he had to think about how it would affect us in the long and short run. When Lincoln was elected to become president he was not very well liked by the people, mainly in the south, and that was because he wanted to abolish slavery. The south wanted to keep slavery they liked it and always used it especially since the cotton gin came out and that’s when slavery was booming. To Lincoln it really didn’t matter if the people liked him or not he was now the president and he was trying to liberate slavery even if the south …show more content…
With the Civil War going it was the North and the South fighting they were mainly fighting about whether to keep slavery or to get rid of it and the south wanted to keep it, but the south did not want it to seem as if they were fighting for the blacks, but that basically fighting for they just did not want to admit it. At this point during the war the Union were winning and that is the way everyone wanted to keep it. Things were starting to get pretty bad in the war and they did not want it to get any worse. Then the Emancipation Proclamation was to be set and that would free the slaves and they would be able to have the equal rights as every white person there was. When Lincoln was assassinated the blacks thought they would have to be put back into slavery, but once the Emancipation Proclamation was set they could not change it, even if they wanted