Abraham Lincoln: Was Lincoln A Hero Or Hero?

Abraham Lincoln, infamously nicknamed “Honest Abe,” was an important influential person in history because of his impactful speeches, unique ideologies, and of course for being the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln’s legacy began when he was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. He was named after his grandfather and had one older sister named Sarah and one younger brother named Thomas. Thomas died as a baby, and shortly after, Abraham’s mother died in 1818 (Lincoln was 9 years old). Growing up, Lincoln had no formal education but he taught himself through borrowing and studying books.

Abraham Lincoln, a Senate candidate at the time, gave his famous “A House Divided” speech on June 16, 1858, in Illinois at the Republican State Convention. When Lincoln delivered the speech his immediate audience was the Illinois Republican Party, but after reading the speech one can see that it was intended for a much larger audience. His speech was intended to impact people of both parties, and to change the way the people thought. During Lincoln’s speech, he had a few main ideas that he was clearly trying to illustrate to his audience.

On February 12, 1809 Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln had three main impacts during his time being the President. He said slaves in the south were free which helped keep the union together. He said that slavery was wrong and he wanted all Americans to decide on each state. Abraham issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Abraham Lincoln was an extreme activist for the emancipation of slaves. For the previous eight years before Lincoln came into office, Pierce and Buchanan were the president and felt that slavery should be upheld in the south, much to the disapproval of the free-soil party, later to become the Republican Party. Once Lincoln received the place as president for the republican party, a few of the states in the south began to succeed from the Union and a month after his inaugural address was the commencement of the Civil War. The Union hoped that the war would be over quickly and that they could return to their daily life, but that hope was forgotten after a Confederate victory in the Battle at Bull Run. Lincoln was vaguely familiar with wartime strategies and atmospheres after serving in the Black Hawk War but surprised many with his excellent command and leadership during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln announced freeing all enslaved people in the confederate states. President Lincoln felt that slavery was evil to all involved. It was just wrong to do. On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln made an announcement that slaves would be free within 100 days. On January 1, 1863, the final Emancipation Proclamation was issued and it said “that all persons held as slaves” shall be free.

In July 1862, Lincoln educated his bureau that he would issue a liberation announcement however that it would absolved the supposed fringe states, which had slaveholders yet stayed faithful to the Union. His bureau convinced him not to make the declaration until after a Union triumph. Lincoln's chance came taking after the Union win at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862. On September 22, the president reported that slaves in regions still in disobedience inside 100 days would be free.

Abraham Lincoln was known for emancipating slaves. “Emancipating the slave, and what then! He would fiddle, steel, and then starve” (Theophilus Fisk). Lincoln was also known for being the 16th president in 1861-1865. “Whenever I heard anyone arguing for slavery I felt strong impulsive to see that I tried on them personally” (Abraham Lincoln).

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” -A. Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln was the man who never told a lie, and he brought great success to our country. He came from nothing, living in the back of the store, where he worked the front counter. Abraham was a self-taught reader and lawyer, and spent hours and worked late into the night to create the best work he could.

Abraham Lincoln impact on society is emotional because every time "The Liberator" would give a speech people would be touched by his words. " The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here." Lincoln didn 't care people forgot to switch all he wanted was for people to remember the people who want fight in the Civil War and risk their lives for other freedom." To prove slavery a very good thing we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good it by being a slave himself. "

Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson were all wonderful leaders and they all three had an extremely heavy impact on what America, our home, is like today. although all of these men significantly impacted our country, I believe that the work of Thomas Jefferson deserves the most credit and deserves the title as "the strongest president". Yes, George washington was the first president, and he was the one who came up with the idea of the citizen leader, which meant just a normal citizen rose to presidency for their terms and then went right back to living a private life.(father of the nation, paragraph 3) but this doesn't particularly mean he was the strongest president, he merely set the standards for which Thomas Jefferson excelled past. Many people may say that Washington was the strongest U.S. president because befre he was elected president he still did so much to help our country, including being the Commander in cheif of the American Army, and he also helped revise the U.S Constitution, which is outstanding, but