Lincoln Movie Response
Lincoln Response Paper There is a lot that happened in the movie last week. Overall I liked it. It was interesting to see what it was like back then. Some of my favorite parts are where Lincoln tells his stories. I was watching it and paid attention to how he said it. In that very soft and slow tone, he told the members, with almost no emotion until the endings. If I remember right Lincoln woke some of his employees up around three a.m. to try to decide if he should pardon a young man who took off instead of joining the war. They were going to hang a 16 year old for being scared. That was also another thing that thought was interesting. I looked up some reviews on the movie this weekend and saw that in some way it distorted history. Those people who said that weren’t alive when all of this happened so how would they know what happened or didn’t happen. I don’t know why people would dislike this movie, in my eyes it is one of the best historical movies I have ever seen. Also I was not alive when this happened either but I believe that these actions showed were true. Political tactics plays a huge part in the government. There are many things you can do like bribery or straight up overpowering and just winning arguments. Lincoln bribed men with jobs. In doing this those men would cast their vote the way Lincoln wanted. If he didn't use a little deception to sway those that would have never passed the amendment, where would we be today? Another thing he did was to please the people. There were people who were very against owning slaves. They thought it wasn’t fair to the blacks. Lincoln didn’t just say “I want it now!” like a little baby. He took everything one step at a time and never got ahead of himself. As my grandpa says “Don’t be counting your chickens before they hatch!” Lincoln convinced them that ratifying the amendment would force the south into surrendering. This didn’t work however. Lincoln said that southern voters would be unlikely to ratify