Emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation proclamation stated that all slaves in the south should be forever free. Lincoln also wanted to show the south that he wasn't going to quit the goal of being president and of controlling the country. Abe really wanted them to know that the slavery that they were doing wasn't right and that none of the other countrys would be willing to help them because of their slavery. This started a war between the north and the south. The south didn't want to believe that the others wouldn't help. The north knew that they had to end it some how. This is the Civil War.