freeing the slaves
The restoration of the Union
To bring the union back together.
To bring the Southern states back into the Union.
Restoration of the union.
After April 12, 1861 it became keeping the union together.
To preserve the Union
The states that left the union.
Abraham Lincolns main goal at first was to keep the states together. But later slavery was included but no by choice. It just mixed in and was part of it till the end
the main idea of reconstruction is to rejoin the south and the north.
to win the civil war
To preserve the Union.
The original goal of the union was to preserve the union at all cost.