Abraham Lincoln's Goals During The Civil War

During the civil war, Abraham Lincoln’s most important goal was to preserve the nation as a whole. But more and more people including himself realized that slavery system was also one of the major concerns that should be addressed and needed to be abolished right away. As long as the slavery system exist, the country cannot sustain as a whole in the future. Lincoln understood that the Constitution limited the Federal government's power to end slavery. He had tried to give compensated emancipation in return for their prohibition of slavery. On June 19th, 1862, Congress passed an Act for prohibiting the slavery system on all the territory of the U.S. Later in July, the Confiscation Act of 1862 was passed as well. (Marrs 2). The acts passed with