Was Abraham Lincoln a good president?
defining moment and his problem to grapple with, even though the threat of succession had been happening for decades, namely, over which states would be slave states, and which would be free. When we faced westward expansion, that’s when the issue came to a head. As to whether he would have been considered a good president had the Civil War not happened, it’s anyone’s guess. The war didn’t start out with the main objective of freeing the slaves; it was to prevent the union from breaking up–in other words, the preservation of the union and the United States. Lincoln was very adamant about that. As the war progressed, it became obvious that the subject of slavery was more than just retaining the planter life style of the South, it was also a human problem that had to be dealt with. Abolitionists in the North were lobbying for an end to slavery and there was the problem of runaways. Should they be sent back to the South and their owners? Finally, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation i
