Compare And Contrast Abraham Lincoln And The Civil War

Robert E. Lee was Abraham Lincoln’s First choice to be the general of the Union army during the civil war. Lee responded to Lincoln’s request by saying the he hates slavery and he hates succession but he won’t fight against his home state of Virginia. Lincoln’s goal for the civil war wasn’t originally to free all of the slaves it was instead to try and keep the Union together.

not have much real effect at the time, it pointed a way to a brighter

be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States” Presidents James Polk and Abraham Lincoln both dealt with war and relied on their Commander-in-Chief role during their presidencies. While believing in different political, economical, and social practices, Polk and Lincoln both used their role as Commander-in-Chief assertively, creating clear goals as to what they wanted to accomplish and how they were going to succeed.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln both helped tremendously as civil rights leaders. The civil rights movement took place in the 1950s and 1960s. The civil rights movement gave blacks equal rights under law in the United States. (7) Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln were both great civil rights leader. In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize. (6) Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. (1)

African Americans seemed to only come at the mercy of the Whites when they thought they were free. Freedman, something that should be the same for all natural born citizens and includes the right to owning their own property, live life as they like, able to vote, and to work earning fair wages.

United States Presidents are very unique world leaders because of their positions and influence on global government. Eighteen of the forty-four United States Presidents have been identified as representatives of the Republican Party. Two of the eighteen republican presidents who began their careers outside the Republican Party lines found their into the Presidential Office as Republicans. Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan were both known as Republican Presidents they differed in age, education, and political parties prior to their presidential candidacy.

Although James McPherson presents Lincoln as having numerous qualities that defined him as a brilliant leader, he wastes no time in revealing what he believes to be Lincoln’s greatest strength. In his Introduction, McPherson states regarding Lincoln’s political leadership: “In a civil war whose origins lay in a political conflict over the future of slavery and a political decision by certain states to secede, policy could never be separated from national strategy…. And neither policy nor national strategy could be separated from military strategy” (McPherson, p.6). Lincoln could not approach the war from a purely martial standpoint—instead, he needed to focus on the issues that caused it. For the catalyst of the war was also the tool for its solution; a war started by differing ideologies could only be resolved through the military application of ideology. This non-objective approach to the waging of the war almost resembles the inspired approach McPherson brings to his examination of Lincoln himself.

Forrest declared the Ku Klux Klan dissolved and disbanded in 1869.12 Forrest declared a victory in the Klan’s primary objective of helping southerners from the oppression of reconstruction, in the hopes to save face.13 Nathan Forrest continued to be proactive in defending the rights of both white and black southerners as a former Ku Klux Klan “Grand Master” and even organized the Memphis & Selma Railroad and proactively hired educated and talented blacks to high level positions within the company.14 When confronted with his appointment to the Ku Klux Klan, he would adamantly deny all association with the Klan to avoid retaliation from the new violent methods used by

These were two great military leaders who even though were fighting on different sides in the Civil war had a lot of strong moral beliefs in what they really believed in. Coming from different backgrounds they both received Military training at West Point and were some of the greatest Military Commanders of their time. Both men were governed by personal codes of honor and a steadfast allegiance to what each viewed at his homeland. Grant and Lee were in complete contrast, representing two diametrically opposed elements in American life. (Bruce Catton page 61 reprinted in The Norton Mix.)

During the Civil War, there were two remarkable men, Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Both of them had a struggling childhood, growing up poor and received no formal education. Lincoln and Bedford Forrest had chosen a different path, Lincoln is a self-taught lawyer while Bedford Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Civil War and before the war Forrest was a fortune amassed a planter and real estate investor and a slave trader. Lincoln wanted to bring south back to the Union by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation to free a slave, but at the same point, Forrest joins the Fort Pillow which more than 300 African American soldiers were killed. As Forrest was a slave dealer, he wanted to keep slavery while Lincoln is freeing the slave

Frederick Douglass and Abe Lincoln were two very different men who grew up in remarkably different worlds. Somehow, their paths converged and they occasionally worked together to solve the issue of slavery. Douglass, a radical, called for immediate emancipation while Lincoln, a Republican, called for a much more conservative approach. Although they were both concerned with the same issue, their plans to solve the problem could not have been more different. Their differences stemmed from their backgrounds and personal views but each approach had its own merit; however, Douglass’ approach would have a more powerful impact in today’s society.

In Grant and Lee there is a comparison and contrast between their personal lives, political views, and how they would hold oneself. Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are two complete different people from different time periods where one had slavery and the other aimed to abolish it. In a comparison and contrast of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington each one having their own personal lives, family, and historical actions, which made up some of their differences.

The Civil War was the worst crisis in American history, pitting two sides of a split nation against one another in bloody battles that persisted for four exhausting years. It was a war that neither side claimed to want, and that neither side claimed to start. Although popular belief places the blame with the South because they fired the first shot, there is considerable evidence that Lincoln, realizing war was inevitable, coerced the South into firing that first fateful shot.

have impacted our nation and their legacy lives on still to this day. History would be different if

The Civil War was a war between the union, and confederate states in the United States that occurred from 1861-1865. Many people believed that the Civil War was about slavery and southern states right to defend their states’ rights. The confederates were fighting for their liberty and independence under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, who they felt was a tyrant. However, the union, was fighting to preserve their territory, that was created by their founding fathers from chaos and dismemberment. President Jefferson Davis believed that the civil war was based on the confederate rights to secede from the union. Jefferson also felt that Abraham Lincoln was to blamed for the start of the civil war, since he was against slavery. Lincoln’s intended goal was to preserve the union, he claimed slavery was not the reason. “If I could save the union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it, and if I could slave it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that (Shi &Tindall, 2015, pg.465)”. Lincoln told everyone that if the southern states were to return to the union that slavery would still exist. However, many people believed that Lincoln wasn’t being truthful.