AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Continue supporting the war effort
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Reject the idea of war
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Enlist in the army
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End the Civil War
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: A continue supporting the war effort.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln urged his audience to fulfill the mission that Union soldiers had fought and died for: the realization of liberty and equality for all-ideals in our Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the American Civil War, President Lincoln noted again and again that his purpose in fighting the South was to save the Union, not to free the slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln’s decision to fight rather than to let the Southern states secede was not based on his feelings towards slavery. Rather, he felt it was his sacred duty as President of the United States to preserve the Union at all costs.
Detailed explanation-5: -Slavery, Lincoln stated, was the reason for the war: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. Not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.