Question

As the Civil War began, President Lincoln accepted the belief that individual states should settle the question of slavery. it was time to end slavery throughout the United States. the Union could be preserved as a mix of free and slave states. preserving the Union was not worth the loss of life it would cause.

Answer 1

President Lincoln accepted the belief that individual states should settle the question of slavery

Step-by-step explanation:

While the war initially began to ensure that he was able to preserve the union and not about Slavery as the war progressed and with the Emancipation Proclamation he declared that the war would end slavery as well as preserve the Union. We see this again when he gives the Gettysburg Address