The tallest president to step foot in the white house was President Abraham Lincoln. Often is presented as the man who freed the slaves with the emanicipation proclamiation. All true historians know that though it did lead up to slaves becoming free its purpose was not directly to free the slaves. The proclamation was a well divised military strategy to get repressed or orpressed blacks to join the union army against the confederate states to deplete the south from its reign of operating as its own entity. Also is the president that stands in the middle of the debate of was the civil war a battle of controlled econmy seeing as how slavery was seen as immoral to the outside countries that was watching the United States participating in act that was going against it on declaration and constitutional values. Having owned slaves himself this man can be argued to be the most important president of the 19th century. He also noted for having one of the most american speeches of motivation to the people during the trail of the Gettysburg address. John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 in later part of his presidential career at a movie theatre.
And people think that politicians acting for political purposes is something new...
ReplyDeleteAlso, Lincoln was assassinated at a traditional theater--movies weren't invented yet!
I like your historical posts! Only thing I would change is revising so that it can be more clear and better grammar ( i have this prob too) . I think you should have students find excerpts of their history book and give extensive research on it and present it to the class! They would come up with things like this! Have the students make up their own history book! Good post.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is so important for people to know this. I lot of people think that the Civil War was about ending slavery. That is not why the war was started. There were so many reasons behind the war. As people we need to dig a little deeper and find the real reasons for events in history and current events.
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