Abraham Lincoln's Influence

To many Americans, Abraham Lincoln to this day is one of the most important American political figures in history. (2)Abraham Lincoln played a major role in the war between the states. This war transformed the American governments nature. Slavery took almost all the attention away from the aspect of the war between the states. Lincoln is well known to most people as the person who freed the slaves. Lincoln was single minded and devoted to an economic problem during his twenty-eight years in politics. He focused on the cause of protectionist tariffs, taxpayers subsidies for corporations, and the money supply. Thomas Dilorenzo is an American economics professor at Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business. Abraham Lincoln
The Declaration justified the secession of the American states. The Declaration of Independence was an important part of the states’ rights doctrine. Southern secessionist of 1861 helped embrace the states’ right doctrine, this was seen as the most important defense the people that survived the war of the centralized government power.(86-89) Lincoln said anyone has the power to shed the existing government and form a new one that better suits them. Thomas Jefferson also defended the secession as Lincoln did. Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He supported the Union and defended the right of any states to withdraw from
The Republican party was in favor of the southern slavery. The Southern slavery caused its leaders to fear the emancipated slaves residing back to their own northern states. Many of the northern states amended its constitution the prohibited the emigration of slave or black people into the state. The reason Lincoln launched a military invasion of the South was “to save the Union” not to free the slaves. (258) The biggest miscalculation in American history was Lincoln believing the war would only last a few months. Professor Wilson always anticipated sharp scrutiny and severe criticism toward the effort to prater Abraham Lincoln as a real politician rather than a saint or mythical figure. (281) Lincoln is one of the favored as a society that is based on racial inequality. Historians have labeled Lincoln as a dictator one reason being that he disregarded the constitution to such a large extent. (303) Lincoln is the most visible symbol of statism is America. He is found on the five dollar bill, carved in Mount Rushmore, and has a statue of him in Washington,