Essay about Abraham Lincoln

His traits

tolerant, flexible, intelligent, could handle criticism, respectable, picks good men to be in his cabinet

summary of his views

against expansion of slavery, will do anything to win the war

What was happening before lincoln became president

north and south had divided views on slavery

summary thesis

Throughout the course of the Civil War, Lincoln's views of the reason for war changed from saving the Union to completely terminating slavery, and he did this by evolving from limited to total warfare.

political

-free solider-wasn't;t an abolitionist but didn't want slavery to expand

-Lincoln knew the north wouldn't want to participate in the war with the union if they were fighting to end slavery because they were racist

-In the first inaugural address Lincoln realizes he doesn't want to interfere with slavery and that the only thing on his mind is to protect and keep the union united

-In this document Lincoln states that he isn't going to interfere with slavery between states; only goal was to keep the union intact and winning as a union not ending slavery

-in another one of his documents the emancipation proclamation states to keep the border states neutral of slavery

-he keeps them neutral because they are all supplying resources and money which is going to the confederacy; helps win the war

-some cons of the ep is that it disrupts the home front and the confederacy loses soldiers

-Gettysburg address- changes the meaning of war realizing the only goal is to win the war and abolish slavery and bring southern states back into the union

second inaugural address- war advances farther than he expected and believes its gods will to finally end slavery

Military

-his views on the type of war depended on who the general was at the time

-he didn't like McLellan because he wasn't aggressive enough and didn't take orders from lincoln and he didn't have confidence in himself

-as for grant and Sherman they were total warfare like lincoln they were motivated to fight--- more casualties, war on the homefront, innocent civilians killed, killing farms and buildings people lose money and can't pay for the war lowers states in the confederacy and this all destroys morale

-once he decides to drop the protection of the unions this allows for the union to expand with more soldiers

Slavery

-Ending the war meant ending slavery

-when he included the african americans for the right to fight they run away from owners and fight in the war more people in union means less in confederacy

-- Lincoln changed his views about the war because slavery was doing more harm than good for the country

-During his first innaugural- he made the war more about the union so he has more political support and making the war about slavery

confiscation act- declared that any property used by the confederate military including the slaves could be confiscated by union forces

-militarily; smart because the slaves are going to run away from the south and disrupt the homefront, and the more difficult it is for the confederacy to fight

by encouraging the end of slavery many slaves escaped and and so did african americans

more soldiers makdes confederacy less powerful

conclusion;

The main reason why lincoln helped the union win the war was because he went from limited to total warfare. Meaning he did everything in his power to help win while being practical at the same time. Thinking about what peopel cared about opposed to what was best. Also he valued each state and doesn't want them losing their support towards the union and by thinking politically and militarily he was able to do so in a smart way,

answer: the third option is your answer

explanation:

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.