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the civil war was all about freeing the slaves. the north wanted to abolish slavery and the south wanted to keep slavery. in the end nobody ever knew what they were fighting for.
In reality, the Civil War itself did not abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, declaring all slaves within any state of the Confederacy that did not return to the Union by the following year. There were still slaves in such states as Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia and Delaware that had not seceded. But those slaves were freed through individual state and federal actions beyond those of the Civil War or the Emancipation Proclamation
The plans of the Radical Republicans in Congress during the Civil War was to abolish slavery. They wanted to deal our harsh punishments to slave owners throughout the South for their part in slavery.
The election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln was elected president. The south believed that he was going to abolish slavery. The south then began seceding from the union.
they wanted to abolish slavery
To preserve the union and abolish slavery.
In the civil war the south wanted slavery. The North had machines and wanted to abolish slavery. ; )
Civil War
Abolitionists were people in the US who sought to abolish, or end, slavery in the 1800's. Whether or not to abolish slavery was a key issue that led to the US Civil War.
Abolish means to do away with. An example of a simple sentence would be: The Union states wanted to abolish slavery while the Confederate states favored slavery, thus, starting The Civil War.
The one significant problem that led to the Civil War was that despite President elect Lincoln's vow to not to abolish slavery in the South, many powerful Southerners did not believe him. The fact is that Lincoln thought that it was not legally possible to abolish slavery where it already existed. He was against slavery and would help make sure it did not spread to the new US territories.
The pen is mightier than the sword; simply write a statute.
to keep the union together and abolish slavery
It abolished the institution of slavery in the US.AnswerSlavery AnswerSlavery & the tax on cotton
yes they did
basically it was said to be to free and then abolish slavery