10 Forgotten Accomplishments of the Lincoln Administration

Abraham Lincoln may have been a 1-term president, but his ideologies and implementations changed the course of history, perhaps more than any other president in the United States. Here are some of the less well-known accomplishments of the Lincoln Administration not directly linked to the combat between North and South.

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[nomdeplume]

Correct me if I'm wrong ... the US at the time was unique in setting aside such large swathes of land to be used as park systems.

Sure there were other public parks, gardens and recreation areas by other heads of state. But to "completely" set aside such large areas to protect for future generations, is a concept we can be proud of

[dougwalker]

i didn't really know of mine own history.. until you. hearing a voice from the other side... thank you Simon.

[amandajones]

The things I heard from my father that I just assumed he was misremembering but now I know to be true: Bananas were better when he was little and Thanksgiving used to be held on the 4th OR 5th Thursday of November.

[beachboy]

Excellent video 📹
He created a template for the organisation of nations to follow

[AnvilMAn]

4:51 thats like saying the grand canyon is a pothole in the ground, the entirety of the industrial output of the south was 1/4 of new york alone

[skunkrat]

New drinking game: take a sip every time Simon says 1862.
Sorry you have died of alcohol poisoning 😂

[sholms]

Could we get a Top-10 on the most common Products or Technologies that most people use every day that are a direct result of the Space Program?

[thefanone]

He was a great president and a great man with great values thank you mister president

[christopherengel]

Yay! Possibly Honest Abe! He was a lawyer after all. Harrowing how much he aged while in office.

[aliciaish]

Hey y'all!! Hugs from Augusta Georgia 😘🥰❤️

[MrEricSir]

A large portion of Yosemite was dammed off and flooded circa 1930 to provide clean drinking water for the Bay Area. Tough to say if Lincoln would have been okay with that.

[danielleriley]

1862 was a busy year for signing stuff.

[BaldingClamydia]

I thought Roosevelt started National Parks! Turns out, he just greatly expanded them

[MrGalactica]

Just FYI, the map of Confederate and Union states is misleading. WestVirginia was a part of Virginia at the beginning of the war, BUT in the area where West Virginia was, it was vehemently against the South and slavery. It is why my family moved there in the 1840s (Baldwins married black and Indian women). WVa became a state during the Civil War, and were a part of the Union.

[timgibson]

Abe Lincoln said:
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt

Sometimes Mark Twain has been assigned the version of the maxim using the phrase “remain silent”. For example, in 1980 a newspaper in Ottawa, Canada printed the following:[21]

Mark Twain put it well .. “it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt.”

In conclusion, there is no substantive evidence that this popular adage was coined or employed by Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain. The earliest ascriptions to these famous figures appeared many years post death.

[ryanmontgomery]

Did they really not mention that he chartered the first and currently only university in the world for the deaf

[boristhedespot]

very generous of him to give land away that didnt belong to them in the first palce

[robertschott]

The University of Texas is a land school. The land was a huge part of West TEXAS, pretty much was desert. Then around the early 19's Oil was discoverer. It was the Permian Basin oil field, one of the largest in the world. UT was given lemons, and found oil

[bigredc]

I didn't see Valley forge or Gettyburge on that map, so I looked up national parks, and they weren't on the list. When you go to the web pages for those parks, they call them national historic parks, operated by the national park system. It's confusing.

[kcollier]

As for the last comment about Thanksgiving- it's not mandatory TO celebrate Thanksgiving but you certainly can...