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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The clear answer is Abraham Lincoln. Saved the country, gave it a renewed sense of purpose and ended slavery for once and for all. Most of the other great Americans were particular to their time or cause, but Lincoln really does transcend all of them.[/quote]

"Saved the country" comes first on your list and "ended slavery" comes third for good reason. These were also the priorities of Lincoln.

War was not the answer to the evil of slavery. Northern states should have expelled the southern states decades before and enforced economic sanctions. The bloodbath of the war and the following hundred years of continued bigotry were no grand achievement.

War can be used to accomplish all kinds of positive results, but that does not mean its use was the answer. Northerners did not want to suffer the temporary economic setback from sanctioning the south to accomplish anti-slavery goals. Just like today, we would rather rush headlong into war than accomplish things by other means.[/quote]

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