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What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal as President during the Civil War?
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Abraham Lincoln’s primary goal during the Civil War was to preserve the Union — to keep the United States together. Early on he made clear that saving the Union was his “paramount object.”
That said, his policy toward slavery evolved: he opposed its spread from the start, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 as a wartime measure to weaken the Confederacy and to redefine the war’s moral purpose, and he later supported the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery permanently.
That said, his policy toward slavery evolved: he opposed its spread from the start, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 as a wartime measure to weaken the Confederacy and to redefine the war’s moral purpose, and he later supported the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery permanently.
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