Lincoln DBQ
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US History [1]
Chapter 15 120 Chapter 15: A War for Union and Emancipation, 1861-1865 Overview Southerners may have talked about ?states? rights? or ?property rights? but they were going to war to preserve the political economy of slavery. Northerners made it clear that they were not going to war to abolish slavery. President Lincoln claimed to be fighting to restore the Union. Both sides began to mobilize men and supplies to the battlefield by the summer of 1861. In 1862, Lincoln adopted the radical Republican position that emancipation was a military necessity. Eventually Lincoln justified the war in abolitionist terms. After the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect (January 1863) the war lasted