(1)
Lincoln did not view the Civil War as a battle to end
His main goal was to keep the
together. Lincoln did not
(3)
slavery, but he was afraid that he
would lose the support of the (4)
states
if he moved against slavery.
Abolitionists (5)
and Horace Greeley
convinced Lincoln that he needed to end slavery. Slavery was
(6)
wrong. After the North won the Battle
of (7)
, Lincoln issued the Emancipation
Proclamation. All en slaved people in the South were to be
(8)
as of January 1, 1863.
(9)
The Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free
people in the South because the South was
not following the (10)
of the United States. The
proclamation did, however, let everyone know
that the (11)
believed that slavery was
(12)​