Estimate the impact the Emancipation Proclamation had on the people of its day. Trace the growth of Lincoln's attitude and actions regarding slavery. Even so, his policy and position on slavery developed very slowly over time, beginning with a hands-off approach and culminating in his eventual, stated belief that the slaves must be given their freedom. From the time he was a boy, Lincoln was opposed to slavery.How has the political process in this country remained the same? How has it changed? What role did the media play then, as opposed to now? In reading Donald's Lincoln, we view in great detail the political machine of the mid 1800s.What portrait emerges of Mary Todd Lincoln? How did she ultimately contribute to his political career, and in what ways might she have detracted from it? Though Donald's Lincoln is primarily about Lincoln's political life, Donald portrays Lincoln as a family man.

Hodges: 'I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.' How is this accurate and not quite true at the same time?

In April of 1864, Lincoln wrote to Albert G.

How did Lincoln's growing belief in a Higher Power sustain him through the agony of a country divided?.

What in Lincoln's character led him to greatness? Describe this development and its impact on the outcome of slavery and the Civil War.

Donald brilliantly explores the development of Lincoln's character.

How, in many ways, was Lincoln the most American of presidents?.

To what do you attribute this? How might the elements of Lincoln's character and his time have blended together to create a man so successful in casting off slavery and bringing the Union back together? Yet all this considered, he still became one of the greatest presidents the United States has ever known.

He was not considered a handsome man, and he was inexperienced and unprepared for the presidency. He repeatedly failed when running for various political offices.

Lincoln was essentially a passive man.

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