After the Emancipation Proclamation, the North’s main goal in the Civil War was to

The Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people in areas still rebelling against the Union to be free, making the destruction of slavery an explicit Union war aim. The North still sought to preserve the Union, but after the proclamation, ending slavery became a central goal of the war. The correct choice is “end slavery.”

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