Can you give me 3 reasons why Abraham Linscoln thought that?

Question

Can you give me 3 reasons why Abraham Linscoln thought that slavery shoud not be allowed to continue in the united states.

Answer 1

If this is a simple homework assignment, you can get the answer by googling 'Lincoln anti-slavery.'

Last year I read "Team of Rivals," one of the longest books I've ever tackled, and learned not just about Lincoln but the times he grew up in, the times where he led the nation. The Civil War didn't start out as a war to free the slave. It was a matter of battles won and lost, political support, and other current issues that allowed Lincoln to pursue the course of action he did. He was the perfect man to guide our nations through those times, and he did it in part by surrounding himself with a diverse group of men, whose opinions he nonetheless valued because they helped me work towards a broader way of thought.

He is on my short list of "Best Presidents," because his keen mind and homespun spirit allowed him to guide America toward a better future. He found ways to help Americans understand the many issues involved in slavery.

I just went back and looked at some of the earlier comments. Lincoln's opinions and beliefs definitely evolved. He was never a racist. Anyone that thinks so either hasn't looked carefully at the whole chapter or isn't very familiar with the writings and speeches of Lincoln. He was a politician, yes, but it doesn't take much digging to find out what happened to the course Lincoln had set after his assassination.

Answer 2

1. All men are created equal.
2. Even the founding fathers knew this would be the destruction of this country if it continued. God's hands left America in 1861 and allowed the civil war.
3. Racism is a mindset that divides for purely selfish reasons.

Answer 3

Abolishing slavery was the right thing to do. It also had practical value, as it threatened the South with a wave of former slaves-in-arms.

If you want me to say "christian beliefs" that would be nonsense, since he a) wasn't a christian and b) the OT was being used in the South to justify slavery even as the NT was being used to contest it in the North

Answer 4

hi there
Abraham Lincoln's position on freeing the slaves was one of the central issues in American history. Though Abraham Lincoln was one of the people identified as most responsible for the abolition of slavery, his position evolved over the years, and while he early went on record[1] as being personally opposed to slavery, he did not initially take the position that it was appropriate that federal laws be passed to abolish the practice in states where it already existed. Most Americans agreed that slavery had to expand to maintain its political power, and by ending that expansion, Lincoln proposed to put slavery on a course of gradual extinction.

Before the American Civil War and even in the war's early stages Lincoln said that the Constitution prohibited the federal government from abolishing slavery where it already existed. His position, and that of his Republican Party, was that in the long run the country could not exist "half slave and half free". His position and the position of the Republican Party in 1860 was that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories, and thus all future states admitted to the Union would be free states. In this manner, he expected that slavery would be put on a path to eventual extinction. During the war he used the war powers of the presidency to issue Emancipation Proclamation, which declared "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" but specifically refused to free slave in Union states or in states that were already under Union control. As late as February 1865 he offered to pay the owners for the emancipated slaves; the buyout offers were rejected. (In the District of Columbia the slaves were purchased and freed.) It has been argued that by making a declaration only about territories he did not control, as a practical matter, he did not free a single slave. Slaves that had escaped to the Union side were, however, immediately freed - as were millions more as areas came under Union control.

In 1842 Lincoln had married into a prominent Kentucky family of slaveowners. (His brothers-in-law would later support the Confederacy.) Lincoln returned to the political stage as a result of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and soon became a leading opponent of the Slave Power--that is the political power of the southern slave owners. Before 1861 he also opposed the abolitionists. Lincoln's critics, especially the Radical Republicans during the war, said he moved too slowly.

Some historians point to his numerous anti-slavery quotations, some of which are striking and original. They argue that while muting his sentiments sometimes for strategic reasons, Lincoln (as he said himself) "always hated slavery". They say that his compromises on legislation and his refusal to use presidential power to support emancipation (prior to 1863) were merely matters of political maneuvering and strategy. Other historians argue that Lincoln never intended to free slaves at all, but was forced into it as a matter of political expediency. In his written response to Horace Greeley's editorial (see below), while a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation sat on Lincoln's desk, he says, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that...I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. " In actual practice he freed all the slaves in confederate territories.

Answer 5

1. It is an inhuman practice in the light of "All men are created equal".
2. It was divisive: dividing the United States.
Sorry, I can't think of a third.

Answer 6

I wish I had a light the candle hearts my eyes
look at all the money people made off Roots
If I only knew, I would have asked to be on a quarter

Answer 7

"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black races; that I am not, or ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...while they do remain together there must be the postion of of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior postion assigned to the white race."

~Abraham Lincoln

Dig for yourself, and dig deep. Abraham Lincoln was a racist, and he didn't want to free the slaves. He did it to achieve other political goals.

Answer 8

1. he didnt he just wanted to end the war and used that to threaten the south, it says so in the emancipation proclamation he wrote, it said if they would end the war now, they could make arrangements so the south could keep slaves, so no 2 or 3 cuz thats the end of story

Answer 9

he wanted to save the union at all costs and he knew that would mean getting rid of slavery he didnt get rid of slavery cuz he thought it was rong but cuz it wood save the union

Answer 10

He wanted all of us dumbasses to join the rat race and chase the american dream ....... but when we attain it, we are still rats....and it's bad enuf to be a rat ...let alone a slave on top of that. So, there you have it you rat!!