How Did Lincoln Contribute To The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States (1861-1865) was born is 1809, he came from a very humble family of farmers. Lincoln was an ambitious young man who learned to write and read and educated himself into becoming a respectful lawyer earning his license in 1837 and becoming a renowned public figure in Springfield, Illinois. He had an outstanding impact in the 1850’s when the Republican Party was fighting against slavery also known as the ‘’ Free-Soilers, and Anti-slavery Democrats’’. Lincoln got recognized during several slavery debates in a senate run in 1858 against S. Douglas claiming that: ‘’Slavery violated the natural rights of Black people.’’ He entered the presidential election in 1860 during the midst of slavery
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issues in America.
Abraham Lincoln also known as ‘’Honest Abe’’ was a man of high moral character, he was born and raised in a small farm and grew up in a log cabin with his parents. Growing up Lincoln had several jobs such as a rail-splitter, a storekeeper, a surveyor and he volunteered in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War in 1832 however he did not engage in combats but he helped bury fellow militia members and he witnessed the atrocities of warfare while being captain of his group. In 1834 he was elected as a legislature in the House of Representatives and in 1839 he became a member of the Whig Party, which was the younger version of the Republican Party, they fought for economic protectionism, national development and were completely against slavery, it was at the time of the abolitionist movement which led black slaves to the North where slavery was abolished and fled from the Southern states. In 1846, Lincoln wins the elections to Congress as the Whig Party representative. In the 1850’s, Lincoln held several Slavery debates with S. Douglas an Illinois congressman who pro-slavery thus ignoring slavery and its abuses that was causing a severe division between North and South. Lincoln’s famous and prominent stand against slavery was engraved in the public’s mind, which later on helped him in the 1860’s presidential elections.
In March 1861, Lincoln took his oath to office promising to uphold the Constitution in his political promises, wanting to prevent a war he offered several compromises to the South who didn’t trust Lincoln at the time thus decided to secede from the Union and created the Confederate States of America.
Lincoln rejected the idea of secession and only a month after becoming the president, he lead the Civil War against the Southern states to preserve the Union and to spread equality and democracy. The Civil War is the bloodiest conflict that America has ever endured there was over 600,000 dead Americans in five years. Lincoln had assigned Ulysses Grant to lead the Northern armies as a ruthless warrior and an exceptional strategist. In 1862, Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to slaves who were in the South meaning in the areas that were rebelling against his government and did not recognize his authority. This was the turning point where the war wasn’t only to create one Union but also to end slavery all around the nation.
In 1863, the Northern soldiers were victorious at Gettysburg hence Lincoln addressed his famous Gettysburg speech where he explained that the war he launched was to defend the principles of liberty and equality for all meaning freeing the
slaves.
In April 1865, the great commander of the Confederate Army of Virginia, General Robert E. Lee and his army surrender to Ulysses Grant the great commander of the Union armies which marks the end of the Civil War. Five days later the victorious president Lincoln was at Ford's Theater in Washington when he got assassinated, shot in the back of the head by the American actor John Wilkes Booth who was against the abolishment of slavery and was a Confederate sympathizer and aimed to avenge them by assassinating the Emancipator and messiah of all the slaves in the United States.
Lincoln assessed the Civil War as having a profound objective, which was the new birth of freedom in the nation. Lincoln helped preserve the Union and the first president to have an important role in ending slavery, he kept fighting for three years against the Confederacy and persevered in order to keep the states united and by freeing the slaves. However, even by the end of the Civil War, slaves weren’t completely free until the final and legal passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in December of 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution abolished slavery as a legal institution.
issues in America.
Abraham Lincoln also known as ‘’Honest Abe’’ was a man of high moral character, he was born and raised in a small farm and grew up in a log cabin with his parents. Growing up Lincoln had several jobs such as a rail-splitter, a storekeeper, a surveyor and he volunteered in the Illinois militia during the Black Hawk War in 1832 however he did not engage in combats but he helped bury fellow militia members and he witnessed the atrocities of warfare while being captain of his group. In 1834 he was elected as a legislature in the House of Representatives and in 1839 he became a member of the Whig Party, which was the younger version of the Republican Party, they fought for economic protectionism, national development and were completely against slavery, it was at the time of the abolitionist movement which led black slaves to the North where slavery was abolished and fled from the Southern states. In 1846, Lincoln wins the elections to Congress as the Whig Party representative. In the 1850’s, Lincoln held several Slavery debates with S. Douglas an Illinois congressman who pro-slavery thus ignoring slavery and its abuses that was causing a severe division between North and South. Lincoln’s famous and prominent stand against slavery was engraved in the public’s mind, which later on helped him in the 1860’s presidential elections.
In March 1861, Lincoln took his oath to office promising to uphold the Constitution in his political promises, wanting to prevent a war he offered several compromises to the South who didn’t trust Lincoln at the time thus decided to secede from the Union and created the Confederate States of America.
Lincoln rejected the idea of secession and only a month after becoming the president, he lead the Civil War against the Southern states to preserve the Union and to spread equality and democracy. The Civil War is the bloodiest conflict that America has ever endured there was over 600,000 dead Americans in five years. Lincoln had assigned Ulysses Grant to lead the Northern armies as a ruthless warrior and an exceptional strategist. In 1862, Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation, which granted freedom to slaves who were in the South meaning in the areas that were rebelling against his government and did not recognize his authority. This was the turning point where the war wasn’t only to create one Union but also to end slavery all around the nation.
In 1863, the Northern soldiers were victorious at Gettysburg hence Lincoln addressed his famous Gettysburg speech where he explained that the war he launched was to defend the principles of liberty and equality for all meaning freeing the
slaves.
In April 1865, the great commander of the Confederate Army of Virginia, General Robert E. Lee and his army surrender to Ulysses Grant the great commander of the Union armies which marks the end of the Civil War. Five days later the victorious president Lincoln was at Ford's Theater in Washington when he got assassinated, shot in the back of the head by the American actor John Wilkes Booth who was against the abolishment of slavery and was a Confederate sympathizer and aimed to avenge them by assassinating the Emancipator and messiah of all the slaves in the United States.
Lincoln assessed the Civil War as having a profound objective, which was the new birth of freedom in the nation. Lincoln helped preserve the Union and the first president to have an important role in ending slavery, he kept fighting for three years against the Confederacy and persevered in order to keep the states united and by freeing the slaves. However, even by the end of the Civil War, slaves weren’t completely free until the final and legal passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in December of 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution abolished slavery as a legal institution.