How Did Abraham Lincoln Win The Civil War

In a portion of fourth debate with Stephen Douglas on 18 September, 1858, Abraham Lincoln brought up a notion of racial equality between the whites and the negroes. He affirmed a physical difference that would forever “forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.” At the same time, he also declared in the debate that the white race had the superior position than the negroes while keeping supporting slavery abolition to free black men, which showed conflicts and made people questioning what his intention really was.
Because the above document were made on the campaign trail for presidency, I think it was a needed right-time strategy for Abraham Lincoln to play polictics. By twisting the words in his public speech, he made a bet in the belief that he might satisfy both sides: abolitionists and people who did not support racial equality and recruit as many votes as possible so that he could win the election.
The Civil War started in April, 1861 right after Abraham Lincoln’s taking his first term as the sixteenth President of the United States and lasted for four long years. With the end of the Civil War, the United States began the rebuilding of the shattered nation and redefining the meaning and boundaries of American freedom (Foner, page 565) to deal with the questions and crises of liberty and unequal power relationships. The years aftermath of this bloody war was called Reconstruction era with ratification of three important Constitutional amendments.
In December, 1865, the 13th Amendment was ratified as an official ending of slavery in America. This amendment was distinctive because for the first time in the nation’s history, a legal term in law directly