seamless document. Please respond to at least three other classmates for the following questions: Q. Express what you feel is the true motivation behind the Emancipation Proclamation as it was issued on January 1‚ 1863. A. Once again‚ to better understand the September release of the Emancipation Proclamation‚ one needs to go back a few months. The war was dragging on‚ heading deeper into its second year. Although the North had seen its fair share of victories‚ they suffered considerable
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Union lines were freed with the document‚ but they ran to the military on their own will. Lincoln did not have anything to do with their running away because it has happened for centuries. It is this fact that makes the efficiency of the Emancipation Proclamation questionable. If the document did not remove the slaves from their masters and no one enforced it‚ how could it be efficient? Gates‚ Bennett‚ and Lincoln made the observation that the document only freed the males that joined the union. This
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Matthew Sadlow Critique of “The Real Lincoln” 10 /24/14 In the second chapter of The Real Lincoln‚ author Lorenzo brings up many facts about Lincoln that I had not previously been aware of. Throughout the chapter he addresses Lincoln’s outlook on slavery. In a debate with Senator Stephen Douglas‚ Lincoln admits that he had no intentions of freeing the slaves. Lincoln says “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between white and black races. There is a physical difference
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film Lincoln‚ produced by Steven Spielberg and released in 2012‚ stars Daniel Day-Lewis as President Lincoln. Written by Tony Kushner‚ the film was inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Set in 1865 the movie focuses on President Lincoln’s struggle to get the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed through the House of Representatives‚ all while facing challenges presented by the American Civil War. Lincoln won two
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Killing Lincoln By TJ Epps “Killing Lincoln” is a historical thriller written by Bill O’Reilly that explains the events prior to‚ and after the death‚ of our beloved 16th President‚ Abraham Lincoln. Bill O’Reilly first sets the stage in the last days of our great Civil War‚ which takes place in the beginning of April‚ 1865. Mr. O’Reilly takes the readers from the civil war‚ to the killing of Lincoln‚ to the pursuit of the assassins‚ to the final hour of John Wilkes Booth’s life. Knowing that
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Abraham Lincoln work hard from the beginning of his life to the end of his life. He was born on February 12‚ 1809‚ in Hartington County‚ Kentucky. He went through his childhood with purpose dedicating a lot of time to education and hard work. Later in his life and after he became the US president‚ he made a goal to free the slaves and win the Civil War. He loved his family very much and tried hard to support them. Abraham fought hard for what he believed in throughout his childhood‚ the Civil
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At the beginning of the movie we see Lincoln talking to two African Americans who served in the war‚ and they went on to say that they loved his speech and one of them even quoted the end of his speech. This movie shows us how much we need rescuing. According to Spielberg‚ Lincoln and his contemporaries debated the moral merits of ending slavery now or ending the war now. Lincoln was gaining and losing votes. People are looking at it as this: if African Americans are given rights then women are next
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Lincoln and Slavery Slavery is most likely one of the worst events that took place in America. President Lincoln had a very difficult challenge of maintaining a stable country as debates over slavery arose. Once the debates got out of hand and the country turned to fighting‚ war was inevitable. After the southern states seceded from the union‚ some northern men joined the army to reunite the country‚ and some to abolish slavery. The southern men viewed the north as a tyrant power taking away their
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In this paper I will be discussing Abraham Lincoln’s relationship/marriage with Mary Todd Lincoln. It is somewhat debated whether or not their marriage was a business deal or if it was really true love. The reason this is heavily debated is because at one point in their engagement‚ they broke it off. Then all of a sudden they decided to work things out and get back together and get married. So in this paper I will give background information on both Abraham and Mary and correspondence between the
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that Abraham Lincoln is the 16th president of the United States. He was the most popular president of the United States and he has a lot of things going on around him. President Lincoln had some obstacles that was going on in his career. First of all‚ he did not succeed several times to run for the of the United States. Another Obstacle he went through is only a few people voting for him in the presidential election. Other than that it did not hinder him to pursue his career. Abraham Lincoln was not
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