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A 10 page discussion of the many factors that influenced Lincoln during his presidency. Slavery was one of these factors but so too were issues such as what was the appropriate role of the Commander in Chief. Includes an annotated bibliography featuring key primary sources. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Abraham Lincoln is largely framed around the Civil War. Indeed, the Civil War was the definer of Lincoln himself. It shaped who he was both personally and professionally.
Many have contended, for example, that Lincoln was not a religious man. They base this contention largely on the fact that he never joined a church. His
writings, however, reveal a man that was not only religious at the beginning of the Civil War but one that apparently grew even more religious as a result of the
Civil War1. Lincoln also became a great military strategist as a result of the influence of the war. While he had essentially no military experience when he entered
the Presidency, he soon began to work one-on-one with his generals to frame both their offensive tactics and their defensive ones. This, perhaps, is where the Civil War had
the largest influence on shaping Lincoln as a President. The nation was split between states that considered themselves free states, i.e. slaves that
prohibited slavery, and slave states. The majority of citizens that resided in the slave states regarded slavery not just as a necessary institution but also as a just one.
They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part of "hereditary privilege", even that the arrangement was as beneficial to the slaves as
it was to the slave owner. Slave states economies were so tied to the use of slaves that they considered any political move that remotely threatened their right to
control their own affairs an affront. The Mexican-American War culminated in 1848 and the territorial issues that arose from that War, territorial
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