<span>He definitely wasn't a failure: he captained what became arguably the most famous voyage in the history of seafaring. True, he wasn't the first European to visit America (the Vikings were), but his journey opened up the East and the West and ushered in the modern era. That isn't something a failure could do.
But he certainly wasn't a hero, either. He was a ruthless and cruel man who inflicted unspeakable tortures upon innocent natives after he arrived in America.
He was neither a failure, nor a hero. He was a very succesful man who was also a horrible person.</span>
President Lincoln wants to preserve the union. Though he “freed the slaves” he would’ve allowed slavery to preserve the union. Which they wanted to kinda just be their own thing with slavery
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According to the Gettysburg Address, the purpose of the Civil War was to bring the North and South together and to continue to fight and win to honor the people who died in the Battle of Gettysburg. To bring the Union back together was Lincoln's original goal.
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