Terms in this set (15) Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis.
he was able to lead our country and preserve the Union, keeping the US from splintering during the devastating ties of the Civil War. as president, he built the Republican party into a strong national organization. he was the president who saved the Union during the Civil War.
Lincoln believed slavery was an absolute evil. He maintained that all African Americans should be guaranteed "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Free-Soilers wanted western lands to go to farmers, rather than slave owners. Free-Soilers wanted slavery to be legal in western lands, along with the slave trade.
Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
Abraham Lincoln is regarded by many Americans as the greatest president to ever hold office in the history of the United States, and his reputation is definitely well deserved. Lincoln wasn't scared to stand up and fight for what he knew was right.
He vigorously supported the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery throughout the United States, and, in the last speech of his life, he recommended extending the vote to African Americans.
What he did believe was that, like all men, Black men had the right to improve their condition in society and to enjoy the fruits of their labor. In this way they were equal to white men, and for this reason slavery was inherently unjust.
President Lincoln thought that Copperheads were a threat to the Union war effort because some of the Republicans suspected some Copperheads of aiding the Confederates and they didn't want anyone interfering with war effort.
For Douglas, slavery was not a moral issue, and for him, it did not matter if African Americans were enslaved or not, as he did not think of them as ordinary citizens. Lincoln insisted that the problem of slavery should be dealt with by the federal government.
The Free Soil Party's slogan was "free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men." The Free Soilers opposed slavery's expansion into any new territories or states. They generally believed that the government could not end slavery where it already existed but that it could restrict slavery in new areas.
Which of their views were facts, and which were opinions? Douglas believed in popular sovereignty and thought slavery was a backward labor system, but not immoral. He thought that people understood this and would vote Kansas and Nebraska free. Lincoln viewed slavery as immoral and based on greed.