Question

analyze the staement the american government had set out to fight the slave states in 1861 not to end slavery but to retain the enormous national territory and market and resources

Answer 1

Lincoln wasn't fighting a war against slavery, he was fighting a war to get his lost states back in the union. He only emancipated slaves to gain support of the British and French, who were interested in helping the South for cheaper cotton prices. Lincoln, in making it seem that the Civil War was a moral war against slavery, gained the support of the British and French commoners, who were anti-slavery. Because their people were against the Confederacy, the monarchies of France and Britain couldn't risk an uprising and couldn't support the South, making it easier for the north to win the war.

Answer 2

Prior to his Presidency Lincoln was an Abolitionist, against slavery, but that is not why he started the Civil War. The King James Bible, very widely read at the time, in the New Testament Christ say's a divided Kingdom can not stand, this is one of the principles he was working under. Also Lincoln was the first President to use God in his speeches, whether he was a believer or not can be disputed but the bulk to the US populace were at the time.