What was Abraham Lincoln‘s Greatest Accomplishments as President?
What were Abraham Lincoln’s accompishments during his presidency?
Answer by Jack M
getting the Uion through The Civil War, and not being to harsh to the South after The Civil War during reconstruction
Answer by Klay
Keepinig the states United!
Many Southern states made it clear that if Lincoln was elected, they would secede (leave the Union). The South was against Lincoln because he opposed slavery. South Carolina was the first to secede in December 1860. Six other Southern states followed: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. After Lincoln’s inauguration, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina also left the Union. These states became known as the Confederacy. The secession of the Southern states led to the first shots of the Civil War when the Confederates seized Fort Sumter in South Carolina in April 1861.
Lincoln faced the greatest national crisis of any U.S. President. He hated war and the death and destruction it would bring. However, he accepted war as the only means of saving the Union. He warned the South in his Inaugural Address:
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you… You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.” (Abraham Lincoln Web Site)
As the nation neared the third year of the bloody Civil War, President Lincoln issued the historic Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
This proclamation actually freed few people. It did not apply to slaves in the Border States of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware; nor did it affect slaves in southern areas already under Union control. Naturally, the states that had seceded did not act on Lincoln’s orders. But the proclamation showed Americans — and the world — that the war was being fought to end slavery.
Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it changed the way black men were accepted during the war. Black men could join the Union Army and Navy. The liberated could become the liberators. By the end of the war, nearly 200,000 black soldiers and sailors fought for the Union and freedom.
On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The speech dedicated the battlefield to the soldiers who had died there. The battle site became a military cemetery. Lincoln stated in his moving speech: “…we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (The National Archives.)
Answer by Roy S
Lincoln is well known for ending slavery in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation, announced on September 22 and put into effect on January 1, 1863, freed slaves in territories not under Union control.
Answer by thats_not_fair
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greatest accomplishments of abraham lincoln?
around 7 accomplishments, besides for the 13th amendment, what were some other things he accomplished?
Answer by Richard
Gettysburg Address
Answer by Cave Johnson
winning the civil war?
Answer by batman
Haven’t you heard that he would feed his slaves?
Answer by Bug
The slaves were freed while Lincoln was president, he was also the president who stated Reconstruction to help the newly freed slaves.
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What are some of abraham lincolns accomplishments?
Like what did he do while he was in the white house and how did it change the United States of America?
Answer by rayb1214
Your kidding right? Are they too busy teaching that everyone is the same, that everything is ok, and no one is different in schools to focus on actual history?
Just in case this is a serious question – He posed for the penny.
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these were some of Lincolns Greatest achievements he caused the Civil war
yes it is Unpatriotic to try and Hide the Truth with thumbs down
Lincoln worst president in US history
No president in our history ever abused his power, trashed the US Constitution, or committed more crimes than Lincoln. He acted like a total Dictator.
He waged a war that cost the lives of 620,000 Americans. Including the murder of 50,000 innocent Southern civilians.
He suspended the writ of habeas corpus without the consent of Congress (as required by the Constitution).
He had duly elected State representatives illegally jailed without charges.
He illegally imprisoned without warrant or trial some 13,000 Northern citizens who opposed his policies
He illegally shut down and confiscated the printing presses of dozens of newspapers that had spoken out against him.
He re-instated and summarily promoted an Army officer who had been court marshaled and cashiered by the US Army for war crimes.
He illegally deported a member of Congress after said congressman criticized his unconstitutional behaviour.
He even had an arrest warrant issued for the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court because said justice refused to back his illegal actions.
Chief Justice Roger B Taney ruled that Lincolns actions were illegal, criminal and unconstitutional.
Lincoln locked up Maryland legislators to prevent them from voting to secede from the Union, that’s kidnapping.
He invaded the South without the consent of Congress as required by the Constitution, that’s a war crime.
He blockaded Southern ports without a Declaration of war, as required by the Constitution, that’s another war crime.
He imprisoned without trial, hundreds of newspaper editors and owners and censored all newspaper and telegraph communication.
He created three new states without the consent of the citizens of those states in order to artificially inflate the Republican Party’s electoral vote.
He ordered Federal troops to interfere with Northern elections to assure his Party’s victories.
He confiscated private property, including firearms, in violation of the Second Amendment; and effectively gutted the Tenth and Ninth Amendments as well.
He had his Generals attack US cities full of women and children and burn them to the ground.
and people say Lincoln was the Best President Yes Like hitler was Germany’s best Chancellor
Saving the Union
Freeing the slaves
Building the transcontinental railroad
Lincoln kept the Union together, preserved democracy and pushed for the goal of civil rights for slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. The Gettysburg Address was an interpretation of the Declaration of Independence; which promoted equality for all.