To try and convince the southern states who had not yet seceded from the Union but were threatening to do so, to not secede, as well as, focus on protecting the Government's property and assets, against those states which had seceded from the Union.
To End Slavery Where It Existed
The restoration of the Union
During the first-term of President Lincoln's presidency, Lincoln's goal was to preserve the Union. This goal was severely challenged by the fact of the Civil War, which began soon after he took office in March of 1861.
After April 12, 1861 it became keeping the union together.
The Anaconda Plan was the Union army's strategic goal in the summer of 1861.
To bring the union back together.
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
to win the civil war
the main idea of reconstruction is to rejoin the south and the north.
Restoration of the union.
Lincoln's stated goal about peace after the war was for slaves to be free , and be able to start their own life .
To bring the Southern states back into the Union.
He didnt have too much to say after the war, because he was assassinated right around the end of the war.