19th+Century+Hero++wesley10

Why people are Heros

I believe that a hero is a person who gives up something of theirs to help some one else. If some one puts there life on the line to help their team mates and they might die but they saved there team so in my eyes that makes them a hero. My hero is Abraham Lincoln. The reasons that I think he is a hero is because he saved blacks from slavery. He saved America from it's self. He saved hundreds of people from death. He fought the south in the Civil War. The north wanted to stop slavery but the south wanted to keep slavery. Lincoln helped the north win. I will prove to you that Lincoln was a hero of the 19th century.

Lincoln was born Feb 12, 1809. He was born in a log cabin in Hardin County. His grandfather was killed by Indians. When he moved to Indiana is when he first learned about slavery. His parents worked at a factory that was against slavery. As a kid Lincoln was raised to work on a farm and do work on a farm. It was a hard life for Lincoln because in the forest he had to deal with trees, logs, and thick brush. When Lincoln became ha hero in my perspective is when he made an act to stop slavery which is how the Civil War was started. It was a battle with the north and south. The north wanted to stop slavery, and the south wanted to keep it. When the war ended the north won which made him a hero for these reasons, Lincoln was trying to help African Americans because they where being taken from there country Africa which is around the world. So it wasn’t fair at all and he made a big change in America by stopping slavery. The way he helped them was the Civil War in that war near the end the north over powered the south and would stop slavery.

I am going to talk about his act to stop slavery in America. This meets my hero because he was risking his life to do something for someone else. I think this because changing some thing that big some where in the country you are going to have some one who will not agree with you. In Lincoln's case it was the south which wanted to kill him, and wanted to keep slavery.” Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."[] So that would put his life in danger. In the Civil War Lincoln lead the north army in a fight to stop slavery. Lincoln was the president of the United States at the time so it was his god to order the north army. On April 15 Lincoln ordered 75,000 troops to protect the capital and re capture forts. He was choosing war strategies. Lincoln was working with a man named Grant who worked with the north. Grant was president after Lincoln but in the war he was a general. He and Lincoln worked together through out the war. It has helped people today because if he didn’t do any of that then our country would just be worse today. There might very well be slavery today and we still would be living in dark times. It was very bad back then so it would be worse now.[]

For my next act that Lincoln did connects to the civil war and my first act. I'm going to talk about his act to save America from it's self. How it connects to my hero is the same reason it connects to it in the first part. He put his life on the line to help save blacks from slavery and doing that he must of known that some one in the us would not agree with him and might hate him so much that they wound make a plan to kill him. So in that he is putting his life on the line to do some thing for someone else.” Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."[] He saved America from it's self because if he didn't want to put a stop to slavery then America would still be in slavery today. Saving America from it's self is met with the civil war. The south is America and the north is America he saved the north (America) from the slavery in the south (America) so they are both America and he saved free North America from slavery South America that is how he saved America from its self. He saved them by the bravery that he had to stand up to half of the United States of America. In the war that led them to victory over the south Lincoln ordered troops to attack different places in the south and the south was trying to take over the capital to make the entire country under slavery but Lincoln would not stand down he fought until they won the war. The impact that it had on people's lives is that Lincoln changed America if he didn't fight for change then we would still live in a curl country. We would be living in the same country that had nothing good in it we would not have as much friends and there would be allot more evil than good in America.[]

John Wilks Booth didn't think Lincoln was a hero because he agreed with the south. He thought that it was better that blacks where taken from there country and brought to America on ships to bad made slaves. John shot Lincoln in Forts Theater. He tried to stop Lincoln by killing him. Lincoln did not avoid being squished he was shot which ended his story.

I think Lincoln’s legacy was that if he hadn’t made that that big change we would still be living like that today. It helps people because they get to live free in America not as slaves they get to live life the way they want not the way whites make them so the are free.

One problem that Lincoln could solve is that there is still people who hate blacks and are racist but Lincoln could put a stop to that. Blacks are still hated in this world. It is not just blacks there is allot of hatred in the world because people are a certain race, religion, or from a country that some one else doesn’t like and I believe that he could stop that.

Wesley Postman