Answer to Question #43127 in Sociology for Vinayak

Guarantee of basic human rights and equality regardless of your race, sex or religion are the key elements of democracy. Abraham Lincoln’s greatest accomplishment is that he established the understanding of the notion of equality in the United States and gave the functional principle for the democracies in the whole world. Abraham Lincoln believed that slavery is a great evil and “all men are created equal” and worked to gradually emancipate slaves. He made great efforts to abolish slavery as well as modernize the economy of the USA, which also was an important step for the establishment of the USA as a modern democratic country.