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The main purpose of the Civil War was that the U.S militay (union) wanted to get rid of slavery and the rebels (confederates) wanted to keep it. So the union would probably have stayed even if they didn't free slaves as it the the United States military at the time.
On the other hand, the US Military was more concerned with saving the Union. The Union army and navy were not fighting and dying to end slavery. For example, a blacksmith in Ohio, was not going to risk his life and perhaps die over slavery as much as it was an immoral institution. Many Union soldiers were husbands and fathers. They expected the government to handle the issue of slavery.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoIn 1860-1865, the concept of ending slavery was not connected to preserving the Union. The connection was in reverse. By preserving the Union, by convincing the South to return to the US, then President Lincoln and others believed would, the issue of ending slavery would be addressed. Lincoln and others wanted a peaceful compensation plan to slave owners. This was based on the British model of compensating their slave owners to free their slaves. Ultimately, when the Confederacy surrendered, it led to the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery in the US. Then Lincoln had been assassinated, so he was unable to adjust the so-called Reconstruction Era to a point where there would not be the chaos that developed after the war.
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What was the Lincoln union was?
freeing the slaves
What was the goal for the union?
freeing the slaves
What was one main event in Abraham Lincoln's life?
The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freeing the slaves was his greatest legacy and ending the Civil War and preserving the Union.
What was Lincoln's goal for the union?
freeing the slaves
What did Abraham Lincoln say he was trying to do by going to war with the south?
To reunite the Union. He even offered to let them keep their slaves if they rejoined by a certain date.
Which statement is truePresident Lincoln wanted to free all slaves at the beginning of the war?
President Lincoln favored saving the Union over freeing the slaves.
What did Lincoln say he was doing with the emancipation proclamation apex answers?
Freeing all slaves in states fighting against the Union
Did Abraham Lincoln see the abolition of slavery as the major goal of the Civil War?
No. Lincoln detested slavery, but did nothing about it; his sole goal was to preserve the union. He believed that ANYTHING that would preserve the union and prevent the confederacy from seceding was proper to do. Lincoln himself wrote that if he could preserve the union by freeing all the slaves, he would do so; if he could preserve the union by not freeing ANY slaves he would do so, and that if he could preserve the union by freeing some slaves and not freeing others, he would do THAT. Which is what he did. The Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves within the Confederacy; it did not free any slaves within the areas controlled by the North.
What was the freeing of slaves called?
The freeing of slaves was called emancipation. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation effective 1 January 1863. It proclaimed emancipation (freedom) for all slaves from states then at war with the Union.
Does the emancipation proclamation make Lincoln an abolitionist?
Not really, no.Lincoln's sympathies definitely lay in that direction, but he was more concerned with preserving the Union. He once wrote that if he could preserve the Union without freeing a single slave, he would do that, and if he could preserve it by freeing all of them, then he would do that, and if he could preserve it by freeing some and not freeing others, then he would do that.
What could be considered Abraham Lincolns defining achievement as president?
I believe the crowning achievement of President Lincoln was his freeing of the African American slaves from their southern slave owners, and preserving the union by leading th north in its victory over the south.
What were the military plans for the Union?
During the Civil War, the Union army focused on conquiring Southern land and freeing Confederate slaves.
