In March 1861, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln faced his biggest and most challenge situation, how to deal with the “divided house”. With the development of technology and railroad in the Northern, there were more people in the Northern were against the slavery. An increasing number of free black peoples protested to the Slavery and were a fight for the black people rights. In addition, since the Northern and the Southern had different economic system, the relied on free labors. On the other hand, the Southern relied on the slavery. The Northern wanted to have more free labors and they were against the slavery completely. The Southern was more in favor of the slavery. Therefore, the Union kept …show more content…
Even though Abraham Lincoln assured that he would protect slavery where it existed, politics and the economy in the United States needed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Within the Civil War period, in order to keep the four border states remaining in the Union, Lincoln must issue the Emancipation Proclamation after he was sure the Union had the victory. There should be only one economic system in a country. Lincoln chose the Northern economic system as the standard for America.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation because he believed the Black and the White had same natural rights under the Declaration of Independence (Clark, 1858). "No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle -- the sheet anchor of American republicanism"(Lincoln, 1854). In his earlier career, he showed he was strongly against slavery. He thought slavery was “immoral” (Foner, 2009). The reason why Lincoln was able to be elected as president was that he created his own iron – Against Slavery and Men Equal Rights. He earned the North and those who were in favor of abolition. Lincoln believed that both the Black people and the White people had natural rights because he was a witness
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Lincoln chose the Northern economic system as the standard for America. “To win the war, therefore, the Union must take the institution that lay at the economic and social foundation of southern life a military target” (Foner, 2009). Lincoln was in favor of the slavery was the foundation of the South. Lincoln chose the Northern economic system so he needed to take down the slavery. Lincoln insisted that “the equal right to the fruit of one’s labor”. He realized that “targeting the economic foundation of Southern society” was essential to take down the Confederacy. Lincoln was against slavery and when he realized the superiority Free Labors, he knew slavery did harm to “prosperous system” in North (Uelzo, 2010). Lincoln was in favor of Political Economy. According to “Mr. Lincoln's Economics Primer”, “The wild card that roiled these economic disputes was slavery” (Uelzo, 2010). It were commerce and finance led Lincoln to “his lifelong opposition” to slavery (Uelzo, 2010). When the time, Lincoln and Douglas had a debate; Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas had different theories about how to deal with slavery. They were representing for two different parties. Lincoln represented the Northern Americans, whose economics relied on merchant, free labor. In the other hand, Mr. Douglas represented the South, whose Economics relied on slavery (Clark, 1858). In 1857, the article Mr. Helper wrote, He thought the South fell behind the North
It would be more than difficult not to read Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address without some sense of pride or honor for one’s own country. He brings about a call to civility among all citizens striving for unity and harmony with one another. Lincoln understood the dilemma that slavery became for not only the Northerners attempting to abolish the practice entirely, but also for the Southerners perpetuating it in the first place. The fact that there was a faction rising in favor of slavery on a scale that would divide the country indefinitely and that Lincoln foresaw this danger demonstrates the level of prudence he was able to acquire up until his presidency. In this address, Lincoln stressed the importance of the nation staying unified and true to the principles set by
The election of 1860 was an election to decide between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as the 16th president. Lincoln was not a fan favorite, but he won the election, due to Electoral College system. Lincoln made his position on slavery very clear. He wanted to end slavery. The people in the south opposed to the idea of abolishing slavery.
He disliked how the south was creating new slave states, and how it was slowly making slavery permanent in America, this led him to become the head of the Republicans to fight for what he believed in. Another boulder was how stubborn the South was to end slavery. It is true that they needed it because of all the farm land and labor that was needed to be done, it would just be easier to do the chores by utilizing slaves, but Lincoln believed that, that was unethical to use people to their advantage. To overcome this, Lincoln made the Emancipation and the Gettysburg Address (consisting of 4 major parts; to help the government, “all men created equal” (Oates 138), outlaw old leaders in rebel Dixie, and lastly obeying the Emancipation Proclamation) these were a mandatory part of Reconstruction. There is also the dispute between Douglas and Lincoln that Lincoln “desired intermarriage and racial mongrelization” (Oates 71), stated by Douglas.
During Abraham Lincoln’s presidency at the start of the 1860, an issue that had divided the nation was slavery. Lincoln’s election to presidency as a republic was not received well by the Southern slave states, as they thought that as a republican he was out to abolish slavery. In an effort to calm southern states and keep them from seceding from the United States, he attempts to ease them with his First Inaugural Address. In his First Inaugural Address his key points are to clam southern leaders of slave states, keep the states from seceding, and make them at ease as he enters presidency.
Election of 1860/Secession of the South Have you ever wondered why the United States Presidential Election of 1860 was one of the most monumental presidential elections in the history of this country? The reason why is because it caused so much conflict between in north and the south in the late 1800’s. The south wished for slavery to be legal while the north thought otherwise. In the Election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States as he was a Republican candidate and as a result, the south decided to make a dramatic move to make a “step forward” as a unit. The election of Abraham Lincoln caused the north and the south to grow their conflicts and caused the Civil War, but what caused the conflicts?
The main issues of the Kansas-Nebraska bill go back to the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the idea that Americans have for self-government and self-reliance. The ideals they established from 1607-1776 were all based on their independent rights to govern themselves. England’s salutary neglect allowed each colony to create a mini country based on their own best ideas of government, religion, and social standards. The Articles of Confederation and the subsequent creation of a stronger constitution bound the individual states together in a new way. The leaders were trying to create a Union that could withstand the threat of foreign invasion and that could deal with the domestic conflicts arising from the independent states over paying
Instead of interfering with existing slave states, Lincoln aimed to stop the spread of slavery to new states. His public goal was emancipation over time instead of immediate liberation. In a letter written to a slave-owning friend of his, Lincoln plainly stated, “I do oppose the extension of slavery because my judgment and feeling so prompt me, and I am under no obligations to the contrary.” In the same letter, he contended that, “I am not aware that any one is bidding you yield that right (to own slaves); very certainly I am
While Lincoln gave his famous “House Divided” speech, he enforced that slavery cannot continue any longer. He did not say he did not want slavery anymore; rather, he stated how he did not want to increase slavery in the US, but Lincoln’s speech mislead the south into believing, otherwise.
"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, "Letter to Albert G. Hodges" (April 4, 1864), p. 281. Lincoln has always been against slavery from the beginning.
‘Slavery was the root cause of secession’. ‘November 6 1860, Lincoln was elected president of America which resulted in panic emerging in the South’ . The election of Lincoln as president who was a Republican leader meant that ideologies, movements and values from the North would be implemented in the South which meant the abolition of slavery. Slavery was a huge characteristic of the South as the economy; politics; social status and psychological mind-sets were influenced by the process of slavery. The southern white population then derived the idea of secession which meant the South would gain independence from Northern aggression .
The Union, that was under Abraham Lincoln, keep the Northern states together and able to operate better. They were able to function as a whole unit rather than separate states like the south had done. By having this, they were able to keep their government together and on the same page. The South wasn’t able to function as a
President Lincoln stated that: “if I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it,..., and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do it.”. This quote clearly shows that the freedom of slaves was not his concern and unnecessary if it did not help the Union; as the result, slavery still exists if there is no war. Free slave from bondage should be a Great Emancipator’s primary goal and he will do his best to achieve it no matter what, but president Lincoln’s thought differed from that because all he cares was the Union. Although he had many times admitting himself an anti-slavery but his words and thoughts obviously prove that he is
Abraham Lincoln’s vs Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan Lincoln shared the uncommon belief that the confederate states could still be part of the union and that the cause of the rebellion was only a few within the states which lead him to begin the reconstruction in December of 1863. This resulted in plans with lenient guidelines and although they were challenged by Wade-Davis Bill, Lincoln still rejected his ideas and kept his policies in place. Lincoln also allowed land to be given the newly freed slave or homeless white by distributing the land that had been confiscated from former land owners however this fell through once Johnson took office. After Lincoln’s death when Johnson was elected many things started to turn away from giving blacks equal rights and resulted in many things such a black codes which kept newly freed slaves from having the same rights as whites. When Lincoln first acted after the civil war, he offered policies that would allow the confederate slaves to become part of the union again and would allow a pardon for those states.
Lincoln’s main purpose was freedom, and the blacks began to search for identity. On 1 January 1863, “Lincoln proclaimed that the freedom of all slaves in rebellious regions was now a Union war aim- ‘an act of justice’ as well as ‘military necessity’
He always felt that slavery was deplorable. From his childhood in Indiana in a old hut, suffered poverty and hard agricultural working from the beginning of his live , because he was abused by his father forced him to work on the land , having contact with the slaves , he immediately put in their place. Lincoln coming to declare that