Summary: The Great Emancipator

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These men all had good and bad qualities during there years as president, but which one was the strongest? In souces one, two, and three it describes Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson's life as the president of the United States and some of there accomplishments and challenges they faced. Each of them made changes to the country to make it better and worse.

In source one, The Great Emancipator, Lincoln is known as a strong leader. His term was from 1860 to 1865. In paragraph five "His bold and unchanging opposition to slavery is, without any doubt, his greatest contribution to the history of america", saying that Lincoln was a figure to end slavery and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln also handled the civil
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