Why is Abraham Lincoln idolised as a great American hero?

He was still a hero and on the right side of history. Without Lincoln, America wouldn't exist.

because people were Not told the Truth even today when i show the people of the USA the truth that Lincoln by his own admission was a Liar a Racist a Bigot and a warmonger who never freed any slaves

because it took the 15 amendment to force Grant to release his 12 Months after the war Read the Truth about Lincoln

One of Lincoln's most representative public statements on the question of racial relations was given in a speech at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857.6 In this address, he explained why he opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would have admitted Kansas into the Union as a slave state:

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races ... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas ...

Racial separation, Lincoln went on to say, "must be effected by colonization" of the country's blacks to a foreign land. "The enterprise is a difficult one," he acknowledged,

but "where there is a will there is a way," and what colonization needs most is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.

so where does the Great Emancipator come from.

and this what he did to save his empire

No president in our history ever abused his power, trashed the US Constitution, or committed more crimes than Lincoln. He acted like a total Dictator.

He waged a war that cost the lives of 620,000 Americans. Including the murder of 50,000 innocent Southern civilians.

He suspended the writ of habeas corpus without the consent of Congress (as required by the Constitution).

He had duly elected State representatives illegally jailed without charges.

He illegally imprisoned without warrant or trial some 13,000 Northern citizens who opposed his policies

He illegally shut down and confiscated the printing presses of dozens of newspapers that had spoken out against him.

He re-instated and summarily promoted an Army officer who had been court marshaled and cashiered by the US Army for war crimes.

He illegally deported a member of Congress after said congressman criticized his unconstitutional behaviour.

He even had an arrest warrant issued for the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court because said justice refused to back his illegal actions.

Chief Justice Roger B Taney ruled that Lincolns actions were illegal, criminal and unconstitutional.

Lincoln locked up Maryland legislators to prevent them from voting to secede from the Union, that's kidnapping.

He invaded the South without the consent of Congress as required by the Constitution, that's a war crime.

He blockaded Southern ports without a Declaration of war, as required by the Constitution, that's another war crime.

He imprisoned without trial, hundreds of newspaper editors and owners and censored all newspaper and telegraph communication.

He created three new states without the consent of the citizens of those states in order to artificially inflate the Republican Party’s electoral vote.

He ordered Federal troops to interfere with Northern elections to assure his Party's victories.

He confiscated private property, including firearms, in violation of the Second Amendment; and effectively gutted the Tenth and Ninth Amendments as well.

He had his Generals attack US cities full of women and children and burn them to the ground.

He was not just as racist as the rest.

He issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War which granted freedom to all black people. Yes he was a slave owner. But he still fought for civil rights. He worked to end slavery and was not racist. He may not have believed that black people deserved the same rights as white people, but he still believed that they deserved them.

No1 He started a war in wich more Americans were killed in than any other No2 Every one sees him as the one who freed the slaves wich in real life he only made it harder for slaves No3 After the war ended he made manny plantation oners out of business and poor No4 He was killed in office because of the war he caused No5 His face is on a mountain No6 every kid in an American school is tought that he was a great man who freed the slaves No7 He was not racist

He was not racist but he was not a hero. His presidential policies were dumb; however, he is hailed as an American hero because he stopped slavery.