The purpose of the Civil war was to free the slaves from the south. But they wouldn't let them go. So then forth the civil war starts.
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln declared that the purpose of the Civil War was to... *
The Emancipation Proclamation changed the purpose of the Civil War from one of states' rights to that of slavery.
The Thirteenth Amendment was proposed after the Civil War and it's main purpose was to grant slaves freedom and outlaw slavery.
to recognition that they are their own "country" that is the main purpose why the south started the civil war
to reconstruct the United States after the civil war.
The purpose of the Gettysburg Address was to Honor the Union soldiers and their bravery, in the Civil War.
the civil war had been raging over two years when lincoln gave the gettysbug address.what was the main purpose of his speech?
Lincoln believed that all men and women were created equal and that a country like America which claims to be the "Land of the Free" couldn't tolerate slavery. The overall purpose of the Civil War was to end the practice of slavery.
So you didn't shoot your own guys.
To give equal citizenship rights to former slaves
To get back the cotton revenues - half of all US exports.
To give equal citizenship rights to former slaves