Why is that Yankee Lincoln on the five dollar bill.?

Question

He caused over half a million deaths by attacking the Southerners.for wanting freedom.
NO. The yankees had slaves too.
that war didnt have anything to do with slavery.

Answer 1

HE's ON IT BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY THE NORTH WON. sorry for caps
If our darling Jeb Stewart hadn't been galavanting thru the countryside and dapling with the ladies -- if he'd been doing his job and warning Gen. Lee of the whereabouts of the Yankee army and if Lee hadn't been ill (if he'd been able to think straight, if he'd been well) and if he'd have therefore listened to Gen. LONGSTREET the SOUTH WOULD HAVE TAKEN Gettysburg and likely the SOUTH would have won!!! Just look what we did over 4 years with NO: food, no weapons, no training (which actually was a boone to the CSA army as the South fought Gorilla Warfare Tactics which served them much better than the fighting tactics used by the GAR -- soldiers of the American Army of the Revolution also used Gorilla Tactical warfare & won, also against greater odds!!!), no shelter, no Ordinance !!!! 500 Southern boys from Georgia held off 5,000 Yanks at Antietam due to their blundering of Union Gen. Burnside (who gave us the term: sideburns)!!! It was the bloodiest single day 's battle of the entire war! And McCLELLAN -- when shall we stop laughinggggggggggggg !!! Lincoln finally fired him, a decision which helped the North tremendouslly. And if CSA Gen. LONGSTREET had had more sway with Lee, Gettysburg would have been in Confederate hands!!!
But LINCOLN is no hero -- he was an idiot !!! An idiot who saw to it that EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY was TOUCHED or DESTROYED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The war DID NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!! There were many diplomatic ways to have avoided this carnage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Slavery was becoming obsolete and far too expensive with the advent of machinery that could do the jobs of 20 men or more. Slavery would have died a quiet death over the next 20 to 30 years and 600,000 men and their families would not have suffered and died. If Lincoln had declined the Whitehouse the south would not have seceeded and cooler heads may have prevailed in an amicable settlement of all issues. Lincoln knew, he was told, if he took the oath of office, it would be WAR! He wanted the Power and the Glory more than he cared what happened because of it.
The war was not over slavery, it was over: MONEY & POWER !!!! Money and power including the huge land loss the separation would've meant to the union! Land is Money & Power! Men only fight over Money & Power (and occassionally a woman). FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL !!! The UNION ARMY was inept and still is: look at VIET NAM & IRAN (Iraq).

Answer 2

Lincoln is on the bill because he was the major reason the Union was preserved. In the above answers is some of the biggest BS I have read in some time. If there was study it does not show in the answers given. In a word - Grant, as in U.S. Grant. Taught Lee how to fight and win. The Confederacy was an inept organization Jefferson David the most inept possible. If the Confederacy they would be a third world country today. Strange that the people most abused by the Southern Aristocracy fought so hard to retain a system that kept them in perpetual ignorance and poverty.

Answer 3

hi 'lil miz sleepy' : i wager even as Lincoln 1st grew to develop into prevalent and, then, elected as president, the top of the U.S. Mint determined that Lincoln's head should be on the penny. a lot later, after the assassination, they probably determined that now he replaced into commonly used adequate to be solid on the $5.00 greenback bill.

Answer 4

Why would anyone who is a "history scholar" spell "Gorilla" for guerilla warfare? Petunia1354 can praise the Southern losers all she likes - but History will always be there to remind us who the winners truly were. They were: PHILIP SHERIDAN, GEORGE A. CUSTER, and JUDSON KILPATRICK. To answer the question, Lincoln is on the five dollar bill because it is a common practice to put the heads of presidents/leaders on the currency of most nations.

Answer 5

Who would you rather see on the five dollar bill? Most of our most prominent presidents were in office when a war was going on that someone can find unjustifiable. Besides, it wasn't freedom the southerners wanted. They already had as much freedom as the Yankees.....excepting the southern blacks, of course.

Answer 6

Lincoln is not on the $5 bill because of the end of slavery...he is on the bill because he held the union together and therefore preserved the United States. That's why he is on U.S. currency.

Answer 7

Blah, blah,blah,blah. It wasn't totally for the slavery OK, but at least did that, the finished of it. At least the north wanted it together with other things, meanwhile the south did war because they did want the slavery to keep in business based in this inhuman treatment. Who do you prefer, General Lee?

Answer 8

Simply because far GREATER minds than yours determined that he should be remembered for his service and sacrifice.
He maintained the union in order that you may have the freedom to sit on your a%% and gripe about it!
Get off of your a%% and join the military branch of your choice and then ask your drill sergeant why Lincoln is on the 5 dollar note AND the penny.

Answer 9

petunia1354 has an excellent concept of what happened during the war. I have chatted with her on CIVIL WAR sites and she is highly knowledgable. The person who knocked her shows by his 'answer' he has no real knowledge of the CW . I believe she is PHI THETA KAPPA or PHI BETTA KAPPA in History at University of FLA. She has several friends she was telling me about who are also history professors and Civil War writers and scholars. I'm sure if you have more questions she'd be happy to give you researched facts. Not prejudice thoughts.

Answer 10

because he was a president of the united states. had the confederacy won. it would not be so.

the war had everything to do with slavery. slavery was the driving force of the issue of states rights.