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The main goal of President Abraham Lincoln and his supporters was to end the rebellion of the Southern states that had declared their independence. Lincoln believed the issue of slavery, then a Constitutional right, could be addresses once the nation was again united. As a war measure, Lincoln announced the freedom of slaves in the Confederate states. He could not issue any emancipation of slaves in the border states for fear they might join the Confederacy.Lincoln had always stated he personally was against slavery, however, he had no intentions to end it in the South. Also, the US Supreme Court had called the institution of slavery to be legal.

Most Northern people, however, did not want slavery to exist in the new territories of the West.

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