History Help on Abraham Lincoln!!?

[pfloyd]

I'm a bit confused on this question... Lincoln's use of executive authority during the Civil War was both legal and justified.

Assess the validity of this statement in TWO of the following areas:

•Civil rights, including habeas corpus, freedom of the press, and the military draft
•Attempts to persuade border states not to secede
•Emancipation


I'm not quite sure what to say in these. Help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[bridluc772000]

Basically Abe pulld the executive order or priviledge in regards to the press as to what could be published in the newspapers and what could not, newspapers were in their infancy at this time and govt. controls were strictly enforced, even at local levels, the order to go to war was granted after Fort sumter was bombed by the rebels, the legislature, senate and house drew the motion, and Lincoln approved it. The 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution were passed during the war and the emancipation proclamation passed in july of 1863 i believe which freed all slaves but started the KKK, share cropping and later the Jim Crow laws.