Abraham

In President Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, he recalled the past and look toward the future (Johnson, 200). Lincoln stated, “He [God] now wills to remove [slavery], and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war” (Johnson, 201). Lincoln asserted that God imposed this dreadful and violent war on both the North and the South because He wanted to end slavery (Johnson, 201). Lincoln also suggests that God imposed this brutal war to punish each side for their wrongdoing…

When Abraham Lincoln was elected President, he stood on middle ground regarding slavery (406). When Lincoln was elected, he did not address the abolition of slavery at the first, instead took a well-studied political plan to address the issue. Lincoln knew that…

Any determined person who set out to find the most influential and instrumental source responsible for the Civil War would be hard pressed to find anyone more influential than Abraham Lincoln. The first example that supports this is the strategic cunning of Lincoln in the time building up to the Civil War is his understanding that if they had been the ones to fire the first shots of the war the northern United States would most likely lose support from the neutral states of Missouri, Kentucky,…

Abraham Lincoln is considered one of our nation’s greatest presidents. He was born February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky. During his early life and childhood, he made his impact on his community and did common things for people of that time. He was the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln. He lived in a log cabin, and is possibly the most famous “Log Cabin” presidents. Now one of the obvious and well-known impacts on the U.S. is his work to abolish slavery. Lincoln supported…

Question #2, Civil War & Reconstruction, Lincoln During the Civil War and Reconstruction Abraham Lincoln was very important to the time. Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War. Since he was president, he was in charge of how to deal with the Confederates and to keep other states from succeeding. Lincoln was against charging the succeeding states of treason because he wanted those states to come back into the Union and end the war. He wanted to do this however, without giving them…

Abraham Lincoln: The Word Magician The purpose of this essay is to analyze the works of Abraham Lincoln. Often when presidents give speeches the general population neglects to remember them, and they disregard them. Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, did not appear to have this issue. Some of his speeches are still pursued until this day. Not only are Lincolns speeches still being read and analyzed, but they are also being taught in learning environments. Much can be…

In March of 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what is easily the most famous inaugural speech in United States history. He was re-elected only a few months earlier and the civil war was just about over. The nation’s people were wondering what would come yet and how would the rebel stage rejoin the union and what would become of the former slaves. People assumed that Lincoln would answer these tricky questions and expected a blue print for the next four years just as what they received…

Abraham Lincoln is deemed as one of the most influential presidents, of the United States of America, that has ever lived. He may have never been the most influential in terms of foreign policies but, that was all due to his devotion to the country as the president. Abraham Lincoln wanted to unite the country amid the Civil War, so he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln wanted all citizens to have equal opportunities to own a land, so he proposed and passed the Homestead Act of…

Everyone knows of Abraham Lincoln and the actions and choices that made him famous, but not everyone knows how much those actions and choices impacted the United States. It impacted us so much that if he hadn’t become who he became, the U.S. that we know today probably wouldn’t be here. That is why I believe that Abe was the political figure that had the biggest impact on American history. His actions led to the freedom that all people in the U.S. have currently. Even before he became the 16th…

Lincoln challenged Douglas for his seat in the senate. Lincoln asked him four questions, in which he tried to make Douglas make a mistake resulting in either the north, or the south to loose Douglas's favor. The questions were as follows: Question 1: "If the people of Kansas shall, by means entirely unobjectionable in all other respects, adopt a state constitution, and ask admission into the Union under it before they have the requisite number of inhabitants according to the English Bill --some…