Lincoln's main and only goal was to preserve the Union at all costs. It soon became clear that the Southern rebellion was not going to end quickly as most people on each side expected. France and England continued to trade with the South despite any worries about slavery.
France and England would have been delighted to see a potential US enemy cut in two. Then, the US & the Confederacy could be played against each other in economic and political affairs.
The idea that the British people would not support a slave nation, ignores the fact that Great Britain was not a democratic nation and voting there did not fully take place decades later.
The British did not abolish slavery in their empire to please public opinion.
Independent states rights, or rather sovereignty from an opressive, federalized, centralize government, which had been a main point of debate at the first constitutional congress, and upon which general consensus was reached and agreed upon. At the time the federal government, generally controlled by the northern states, wanted to charge heavy tarifs on imported goods; it was the contention of the southern states that the federal government did not have the jurisdiction to force independent states to do so as this was an area that was not directly addressed in the constitution, which meant that the decision to do so or not rested with the individual state.
General Grant is quoted as saying that if he thought for one minute the war was about slavery, he would resign his commision and present his sword to the south for duty. At the time, there was actually more anti-slavery sentiment in the south than existed in the north.
to win the civil war
To prevent the south from seceding from the north.
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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
Lincoln said that he acted to preserve the Union. Although he later decided to free the slaves in the South, it was not his stated motive for seeking to disband the Confederacy.Restore the Union.
To keep slavery legal was their goal.
to recognition that they are their own "country" that is the main purpose why the south started the civil war
To repel the Northern invasion.
to win the civil war
The main goal of Reconstruction was to reunite the northern and southern states after the American Civil War. In particular, its aim was to help the South be rebuilt upon its readmission to the Union.
The main goal of Reconstruction was to reunite the northern and southern states after the American Civil War. In particular, its aim was to help the South be rebuilt upon its readmission to the Union.
His goal was to preserve the Union.
At the beginning of the Civil War the northern goal was simply to restore the Union at all costs. Slavery became the main issue in the following years of the war but the goal at the start was to save the Union!
his original main goal was the restore the union. he freed the slaves in about the middle of the war.
To keep slavery legal was their goal.
There main goal in the beginning was not to end slavery but to reunite as one country.
The North DID NOT want slavery but the South WANTED it. And the main goal of the North was to bring the souther sates back to The Union.<3