The bloodiest war in America, the Civil War was commenced on abolition. The war needed to end urgently but the fighting between the Confederate States and the Union continued. As Lincoln ran and became president, he tried his best to declare his opinion and solve in-equality. But because he was indecisive, a procrastinator, and relinquished by critics, he shouldn’t be considered “The Great Emancipator.” As “thoughts he may have harbored” (Foner 179), Lincoln struggled with his anti-slavery proposals. He “had cast antislavery ideas but not a coherent antislavery ideology” (Foner 62). Had he been more decisive and self-assured with equality, an expeditious plan could’ve united the states before the war started in 1861. Lincoln was a procrastinator