Lincoln Essays

In the “Second Inaugural Address” (1865), Abraham Lincoln contemplates that they, as a United Nation, should reflect on the effects of the Civil War and move towards a better future for this nation. He addresses God and the issue of slavery in order to encourage the Northern and Southern states …

Gadsden purchase – is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by …

“The words of my books,” said Walt Whitman, “are nothing, the drift of it everything.” The various themes in Whitman’s works are the most important, the actual erudite terms are only important in upholding these ideas. The main themes of his “O Captain! My captain!” are death of a hero, …

What was Reconstruction? (Both Presidential and Congressional) How did? Or did it change the South and Arkansas? Reconstruction can be defined as the rebuilding of a city or a town after the Civil War. At the time of the Civil War, Presidential Reconstruction was divided into two phased. The two …

Manifest Destiny in combination with the slavery issue greatly contributed to secession and Civil War. Manifest Destiny was the idea that the US was chosen by God to populate the Americas. The 1800s were a time of expansion but every time the US gained land they had to deal with …

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, and Jefferson Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, share many similarities and differences in their education, presidency, military experience, and political standpoint. Both Davis and Lincoln grew up in a family of poverty-stricken …

What were the goals of Radical Reconstruction and how did it lead to changes in ideas of American citizenship? Reconstruction refers to the period of time post-civil-war when the goal was to bring the South into submission and protect the African American Civil Rights. The federal government set the conditions …

A) Background: Abraham Lincoln was a self-thought Illinois lawyer and also a politician, born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S. on 12th February 1809, who later became the 16th president of the United States. Before he became a politician he was a soldier, he fought in the army and became a captain …