Biography Of Abraham Lincoln And Lincoln

This relates to the American Civil War because they had no idea who was going to be the leader. America had no idea there was even going to be a war. Then, there was held the election of 1860 in which Abraham Lincoln and Steven Douglas ran for. Much like Nathaniel Bacon, the leaders running for office in this election were more than qualified. Both men were very well liked by the public and related with them very easily. They were both great public speakers and were familiar with how government works, although Lincoln had only been an Illinois senator for a year previous to running for president he knew enough of what the people wanted to make a good leader, which seemed to be enough. As for Stephen Douglas, he had been in the government for …show more content…
Lincoln was a great speaker and connected with the public very well. Luckily for him he had some background, rather than jumping right into it politics without any idea of what was going on. The thing about Lincoln was that he didn’t necessarily want to abolish slavery, in the beginning. In fact, he saw that slavery was bad but he didn’t even see African Americans as equals. He thought African Americans were inferior to white people. He was okay with there being slavery but only to be confined to the southern states, he did not want it to spread to the west. The only wat to stop slavery from spreading west was to stop it once and for all. In the end, for him, it all took a strange twist and the southern states formed the Confederate States of America. By succeeding from America these states put themselves in harm’s …show more content…
They had whites and free blacks of the North fighting in the war, and because of this, of course, their side had more of incentive to fight because they were fighting for freedom. Not only was it just that it was whites and free blacks fighting alongside each other in war but it was also social status that played a huge role in diversity. Never before had people come together like this to fight for a greater cause than to end slavery. Abraham Lincoln’s Union had a much greater chance to win because of this. They had an incentive to win. Although Lincoln had not minded having slavery, the country didn’t end up keeping it due to popular vote and to stop it from spreading west. During Lincoln’s 1858, House Divided, speech he says, “I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided”(Basler). This states that Lincoln knows the country cannot stand divided, and he says that it won’t be divided for long and will come to an end. Although Lincoln didn’t have much care for the African American slaves he did care for the nation. Knowing that about the slaves, the nation would be divided and he had to abolish