Lincoln Questions
1) Lincoln was uncompromising in the fact that he would not let others opinions change how he felt about slavery. Thaddeus Stevens thought that slaves should be free, and equal under the law, despite the fact that many disagreed with him. In the movie, Thaddeus does say that he believes slaves are only equal under the law, not every part of daily life.
2) I think the movie does a good job of portraying the way Lincoln's feelings towards slavery changes. While he has always had a disdain for slavery because of the way it violates our moral principals, he moves to a hatred for it because of not only the way it violates our moral principals but also because it is increasingly disrupting the state of our nation.
3) Lincoln desperately wanted the 13th Amendment to be passed because it seemed like it would be the best way to end fighting between the north and the south, but also to end slavery which he had always been against.
4) The film used many different scenes to express the different views of the northerners and southerners feelings towards racial equality. One of the biggest reasons they highlighted why the south did not want slaves to be freed was because of the fear that they would have the same voting rights as them. Because if the slaves are now given the ability to vote, they could completely change the way things were being run. For the northerners, however, wanted to end slavery but didn't necessarily want racial equality because they too had many of the same fears as the southerners.
5) In the film, many people were scared to end slavery primarily because of the radical change it would bring to the nation. This had been apart of our way of life for so long it was scary for them to imagine slaves who they had dehumanized for so long, to now have rights just like themselves.
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