Analysis Of Peter Charles Hoffer 's For Ourselves And Our Posterity

Lincoln’s main goal for his presidency was to unify the Union after the Civil War had torn the North and the South apart. In Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural Address” he says, “While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war...” (Lincoln 68). When Lincoln was elected for his first term, he wanted to unify the Union even before the war had

On the other hand, Lincoln thought that while there has been no slavery desirable, he felt should not think that extends to several other new districts, and this should avoid legally. And this should be avoided in a legal manner, with tenacity he had found the solution for this, however, was the right to property enshrined in the U.S. Constitution Even so, the war powers of the President Lincoln, he made a call to get an emancipation during the civil war, in order to enable it to seize the properties of hard workers in order to free them from the legal means

Abraham Lincoln started all that before he was in office, so imagine what he did when he became president of the United States. When Lincoln was elected there was a long series of policy clashes between the South and the North. The clash wasn’t just about slavery. It was a clash of elites. The Northern elite wanted economic expansion. Such as, free land; free labor, free market, and much more. Lincoln had all of this in mind, even the slaves. The slaves saw Lincoln as their ticket to freedom. The South was for slavery, so when they notice Lincoln was trying to abolish slavery they started to secede from the union. Lincoln tried to get some of the states back and more seceded. The confederacy was formed; the civil war was on.

On July 4th 1862, the confederates surrendered the town of Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant. This influenced Lincoln to make the biggest decision of his life. He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation on November 19th, 1863, saying the nation’s fundamental goal is that all men are created equal. He states in the speech, “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract.” He wants the country to understand that we are starting something new. The soldiers have struggled to recreate our country, and that the country needs to take advantage of this opportunity. He has now committing himself to getting rid of slavery. On January 31, 1865, Congress officially ends slavery with the thirteenth amendment. The thirteenth amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” After many years, slavery has finally ended. Lincoln passed the thirteenth amendment, meaning slavery can no longer exist in his country. This will help recreate the country that has been broken for many years. From February 1863 through April 1865, Lincoln believed the best way for this country to unite was without slavery, contradicting what he believed from the start of his senate race to Post First

President Lincoln's initial goal in the Civil War was to hold the nation together. And in this, the war and Reconstruction were a success. With the 13th Amendment, the federal government succeeded in banning slavery. With the 14th Amendment, they defined citizenship and protected all Americans under the law. Extended equal suffrage was given to all men regardless their race, color, or previous condition of servitude in the 15th Amendment. Federal low, such as the Freedman's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act, worked to give civil right to African Americans that allowed them to equally join the government, as well as society. They contributed their effort for equal rights and to establish facilities such as hospitals, schools, residences and railroads.

When elected, President Lincoln vowed to prevent the extension of slavery. As a result, the Southerners chose secession, while Northerners believed that the collapse of Union would destroy the possibility of a democratic republican government. This resulted in the Civil War, which lead to the end of slavery in the United States. Throughout the war, there was much debate over whether or not the Civil War was about slavery or the Union. Lincoln first rejected the end of slavery as a goal of the war, but slave escapes in the South bothered Lincoln. The Union’s fate was at stake and Lincoln’s major goal of the war was to save the Union. Lincoln finally surrendered to the pressure of antislavery republicans, making the Civil War mainly about slavery, and seeing slave abolition as a way to end the rebellion and protect the Union. Abraham Lincoln created the proclamation of emancipation in July 1862, which called for an end to slavery. The proclamation was issued on September 22, basing its legal authority on his responsibility to suppress the rebellion and was signed by Lincoln on January 1, 1863. After the war, abolitionists were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be forgotten about, so they pressured the congress to pass a law that would finally abominate slavery. In January 1865 the Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment to ending slavery, and sent it to the states

Four and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. He gave the Union soldiers a new perspective on the war and something to fight for. Before the address, the Civil War was based solely on states’ rights. Lincoln’s speech has the essence of America and the ideals that were put into the Declaration of Independence by the founders. The sixteenth president of the United States was capable of using his speech to turn a war on states rights to a war on slavery and upholding the principles that America was founded upon. By turning the Civil War into a war that was about slavery he was able to ensure that no foreign

Slavery was a crucial issue on the Union 's diplomatic front with Britain. Lincoln realized that he could use emancipation as a weapon of war as the war was now primarily being fought over slavery. He also wanted to satisfy his own personal hope that everyone everywhere would eventually be free. So in June 1862, Congress passed a law prohibiting slavery in the territories. Lincoln issued the final form of his Emancipation Proclamation (Document F). It stated, “slaves within any State...shall be then, thencefoward, and forever free.” The proclamation had a powerful symbolic effect. It broadened the base of the war by turning it in to a fight for unity.

The Emancipation Proclamation was the most influential part of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. By establishing the abolition of slavery as a Union objective during Civil War, the Proclamation did three important things: it unified the Union to a common goal, it helped the Union gain support of foreign European nations, and it provided the framework for eventually freeing millions of African American slaves in the United States. The Civil War began in response to the South seceding from the Union due to the mounting tensions on the topic of slavery. The North was opposed to slave ownership and was actively trying to limit its expansion while the South had prospered from the labor of the enslaved and was threatened by the possibility of relinquishing their rights to such valuable “property”.

Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. As a president of the United States, Lincoln’s goal was to keep the Union together. The problem of slavery and the secession by the South are mainly the two issues that lead to the dissolve of the Union, in which Lincoln put all his efforts to deal with during his presidency. “He believes this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. He does not expect the Union to be dissolved; He does not expect the house to fall; but he does expect it will cease to be divided.” Lincoln claimed that it is

The struggle that weighed heavy on America after independence was the constant battle toward creating and maintaining a stable central government. Through various conventions, compromises, and plans, the United States Constitution was finally ratified. A key component of the constitution, which has been shown to be a compelling guide to the basic fundamentals expressed throughout this document, is the preamble. As the introduction to the precedents/ principles of the federal government , the preamble holds immense importance, because of its emphasis on the strict beliefs of which America is built on.

Abraham Lincoln, the abolisher of slavery, the African American’s President; he shocked the world when came up with plan to end the war. That was to take the South’s biggest asset, their greatest workhouse the Black community. The South were superior at agriculture without having to it touch. Then on the other hand you have the North that is big in factories and don’t want to lose any jobs. So Lincoln had a lot going against him he still pushed for the Emancipation Proclamation. The time period when everyone was fighting each other lincoln wanted something that would end the fight for good, something to bring this war-torn nation at peace. The amendment is to take away the heart and soul of the South so they have no reason to fight. At the time the Democrats were mainly in the South, while the Republicans are in the North where they don't need slave because they work complex mechanic jobs. President Lincoln was entering his second term and wanted the bill to pass before the election stared back up. With some other states already have secede from the Union with some

In the time period of 1862 to 1865, when Lincoln takes office in March 4th to his assassination, the United States was dealing with the issues of preserving the Union. In determining whether Lincoln’s goals to preserve the Union by freeing the slaves, one must assess the knowledge of their relationship. Politically, President Lincoln tried to convince the political groups that abolishing slavery would help preserve the Union; intellectually, he gave the idea of ending slavery to the citizens through speeches; and socially, after Lincoln freed the slaves, they were pursued to join the war for the Union’s cause. In order for Lincoln to save the Union, he would find it inevitable to end the slavery issue.

The Emancipation Proclamation was not the first bill to deal with slavery. However, it definitely was the first legal measure to touch down right on the heart of the conflict between the North and the South. Before continuing in the treatment of Emancipation proclamation in this paper, it must be noted that the Emancipation Proclamation was not a work by the president to contribute for the incarnation of an anti-slavery belief he had due to many reasons. First, the fact that Abraham Lincoln had no intention to take the office or to engage in a war with the southern states standing on anti-slavery goals has been already clarified within this paper. Second, if Abraham Lincoln’s war goal was to free the slaves, it would

Perhaps Lincoln’s greatest achievement as a leader was preserving the union. It was his belief in a house divided cannot stand that led him towards presidency and preserved the United States of America. Before Lincoln became President, the country was in turmoil as to keep slavery or abolish it. It was an issue that was literally ripping this nation apart. Even before Lincoln took office, South Carolina had seceded from the union. The Southern states tried to put forth constitutional amendments’ that would guarantee slavery forever. Lincoln did not like what the southern states wanted to do, so he convinced all Republicans to vote against the measure which resulted in six more states leaving the union. The called themselves the Confederate States of America. Although Lincoln respected them for sticking to their values, he