Lincoln: the movie

1. Lincoln was uncompromising in the way of not taking no for an answer. In the cabinet scene when Lincoln looses his patience he states that he will do whatever it takes to end this war and to abolish slavery.  Thaddeus Stevens was uncompromising with his ideas in that he truly wanted absolute racial equality but to get that and to not lose the conservative vote he had to portray that as "equality before the law" for all. These 2 influential men were willing to compromise on the fact to abolish slavery and getting the votes by which method they did.What the 2 men were not able to compromise on was that rights of the slaves once released they maybe free but they don't have rights in the government side of things.

2. I think that the movie really does show the transformation of Lincoln feeling in the letters and how his viewpoint changed. He starts feeling very anti-slavery and believes that will bring the union together again If everyone would just try. Then he moves on to believe that he needs to end slavery to win the war and end the war and bring the union back. but Lincoln then loses his patience and says if he could end the war while ending slavery he would and he would do it if ending the war didn't mean the end to slavery but all bets were on winning the war and hopefully at the same time abolishing slavery.

3. The 13th amendment was so rushed and essential  to get passed not only to end the conflict between the north and south but also to know that there would be the destruction of slavery itself.  

4. The movie instead of being really straight forward about what side was which it took more of the political approach. like saying democrats and republican (which we would have assumed to be switched) and liberal versus conservative views.The movie also focused more on the work being done in Washington rather than the war ground itself.

5.The movie pushed the property rights arguments as a part of the resist on the ending of slavery, but there was just belief that ending it was morally wrong. As if slavery was destined to be the way it was and to stay in place forever. It wasn't a matter of if the slaves were your property but as if they were not worthy of freedom and that you were crazy to think anything other than pro-slavery thoughts 

the poster for the 2012 movie, Lincoln