hero+essay

My definition is someone who is not completely selfish and helps people just out of the goodness of there heart. Abraham Lincoln is a hero because he helped free slaves. Yeah he started a war that took the lives of young men who joined the army to fight for their beliefs. Though the outcome of the war ended slavery and African American people were free. Now we have already hard working African Americans working in the USA for money. In this essay I will prove Abe Lincoln was a hero.

Abraham Lincoln lived in the 19th century. He was born on February 12, 1809. He was born in Hardin County, Kentucky. He started off as a lawyer helping people win cases and when people were too poor to hire Lincoln he'd work for them for free. Later in his life when he was president he freed black people from slavery. This event is very important because African Americans are free today and if he didn't start the civil war than black people wouldn't be free and we would have a north USA and a South USA and we'd also have slavery in the south USA.[]

He did this by beginning the Civil War by putting the North army (union) against the South army (confederate) where the USA was torn apart by war that was brutal where so many people died. He didn't sit back and let the generals decide what to do with the war; he got involved and made some great strategies and decisions. Like when he put Ulysses S. Grant at the head of the army and initiated the emancipitation proclamation in which he started recruiting black soldiers. When he picked Grant he said' I can't spare this man he fights'. Lincoln than ordered Grant to attack plantations, railroads, and bridges so that there economy and moral would be cru shed. In doing so the south's economy would be weakened and would have a hard time financing warfare. The impact the war had on people's lives is that many people died and black people were freed. It meets my definition because he fought to free the slaves which were unselfish. [] [|http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrah][|amlincoln]

The second reason he is a hero is because he chose a side which was the north who was doing the right thing by fighting for slaves. He wasn't on both sides so that there wouldn't be a conflict he fought for the north. Unfortunately the decision he made to side with the north led to his assassination because the south was angry and John Wilkes Booth shot him in the head because he believed that this would help the south. He destroyed the south forcing them into desperation. This meets my definition because he sided with the army that wanted to abolish slavery. That was unselfish because he was fighting to save people. The impact is there are no more slaves and the people down south despise Abraham Lincoln. "I hold that in contemplation of universal law of these states in perpetual" [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln][|__http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln__]

Not everyone thought that Abraham Lincoln was a hero though. Down south the people felt that he was the devil. They fought against him in the civil war. They lost the war and to try and stop him there was a conspiracy to assassinate him. Unfortunately they succeeded and they shot him in the back of the head while he was at a play. The killer was John Wilkes Booth. What kept him going was his will to end slavery and to keep the United States together. [] []

His legacy is that black people are free today and that they are not being slave driven by some lazy red neck. There would be no molto people with out him. Barrack Obama the president of the USA would be a slave. Basketball and football would only have white athletes. Even the Untied states itself would be very different. It would be 2 different countries and the south would have slaves and be confederate. The wars that black men fought in would be different because all of those African Americans wouldn't be in Vietnam or Germany they'd be working on a farm. The world would have been changed.

The Iraq and Afghanistan war because he helped out in making war strategies and he helped out with the war strategies during the fighting in the civil war. He probably wouldn't supply food to them until they surrendered Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders because he did something similar in the civil war. He attacked a weakness in the south which was crops and trading He destroyed plantations, railroads, and bridges which devastated the south economy which led up to the confederates defeat. So he'd take away their food supply which is a major weakness because it's so dry and can't grow crops due to lack of rain so their wouldn't be any animals to hunt if there is nothing to eat so there is nothing to hunt so without importing food they would starve to death and I'm sure once that happened someone would surrender Osama Bin Laden to America.