CivilWar.AsiaKE09


 * Topic: Slavery

Focus: Abraham Lincoln**


 * Reason for choice: To me, Abraham Lincoln seems like a hypocrite.**

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 * What's your point? ([|thesis]):** **Abraham Lincoln** **would have a different opinion on slavery depending on society's view, not his own.**

What are four various secondary sources you have found before your research? [] [] [] http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html []

What are two primary sources you have found to help your research? []


 * What four reasons do you have that will back up your point?**

1 He was Pro-Slavery in the South. He Was Anti-Slavery in the North.

2 He thought that all men are created equal and that one shouldn't own another, but he went against that.

3 Abraham didn't have a concrete plan for slavery

4 Abraham thought that it would be easier to go by majority than to make his own decisions on slavery

-Lincoln was said to be an abolitionist, although he said that the constitution stated that the federal government could not make it stop in states that already had it legal. -He wasn't making it his duty as president to abolish slavery, he only cared about the Union. "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." “What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.” If he has to fight for slavery to save the Union, he will. If he has to be pro-slavery to save the Union, he will. -Lincoln married into a family of slave owners (so he became one).
 * What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts? Even though people saw Abraham Lincoln as an abolitionist, he kind of went against that and he proved that he wasn't "all about" getting rid of slavery.

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-Lincoln worked for the law in Illinois, and he had a case against a slave family. He was fighting for them to go back to their owner because he claimed them as his property, but he lost and the family got sent back home to Liberia. -He stated that slaves wouldn't be able to stand as equals to the white race. -"We well know that those of the great mass of white people will not ... We can not, then, make them equals."
 * What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts? Lincoln was never an abolitionist. Yes, he may have "thought" slavery was wrong, but he didn't do anything to stop slavery to help them. If he did anything regarding slaves, it was only for the Union. Sources

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 * What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?

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 * What is your fourth reason and three to five facts to support it?**

What can you conclude from these facts?

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 * Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?**

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