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During the Civil War, President Lincoln shifted his goals concerning slavery

from:
A. tolerating slavery only in the North to accepting it in all states.
B. accepting slavery in the South to freeing all Southern slaves.
C. demanding immediate emancipation to accepting a gradual end to
slavery
D. opposing all forms of slavery to allowing slavery in the border
states.​

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Answer:

B

Step-by-step explanation

Before the war broke out, Lincoln considered slavery unjust, but he accepted it in the southern states, but as the war raged on, his stance changed and he ended up creating the Emancipation Proclamation, which, by law, freed all slaves.

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