Category: Abraham Lincoln

America has always carried the desire to ignore its past and live in its view of itself as a melting pot. America wants us all to forgive and forget the past to be one people. How can we forgive the past if this country won’t even acknowledge its true sins instead of the cookie-cutter version…

Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr are both leaders and have influenced countless people with similar beliefs and wanted to achieve goals that were almost identical to one another. Both men were leaders at different times in history but they both fought for civil rights for African Americans. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and Martin…

Oftentimes when we take a look at the storied history of our US presidents, we see what each president has contributed to our great nation, the United States of America. Personally, I look at the stamp they put on our history. Always up for debate is who made the most impact during their presidency. And…

Abraham Lincoln, who served as the sixteenth president of America, was an American statesman and lawyer who led the nation through the American Civil War. His second inaugural speech was delivered on the 4th of March 1865, towards the end of the Civil War and a month before he was assassinated. His speech touched on…

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, and Jefferson Davis, the first and last President of the Confederate States of America share many similarities and differences in multiple aspects of their life elementally including their education, presidency, military experience, and specifically political standpoint. The way you are raised in life creates…

In recent years, people have begun to reexamine the notion of Lincoln being the biggest force behind freeing the slaves. The majority view it as a black-and-white issue where either Lincoln was a great emancipator, solely responsible for the freeing of slaves, or he was a racist opportunist who did not truly care about slavery,…

One of the most difficult challenges to accept and do is change. One of the most complicated things about changing is adapting to the transformation of things. People struggle to get to where they are and some people do not struggle as much as others. Just like individual people, our nation has struggled in several…

Everyone has heard the story of how Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Since elementary we have been taught about how John Wilkes Booth shot the president at the Ford Theater on April 15th, 1865. Our teachers taught us all about how sad the nation was and how tragic it was to lose the presidency, who freed…

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves” – Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln is one of the most celebrated figures in American history and is revered today as a man of rare ability and character who shaped the United States in…

1. What are the problems that existed after the Civil War? How did the North and South try to alleviate them? The South still tried to do its own thing and the violence continued. The biggest problem was racism and the power struggle. The South made Black Codes to continue having power over African Americans…