Question

After the Emancipation Proclamation, the central goals of the Civil War were

Answer 1

After the Emancipation Proclamation, the central goals of the Civil War (1861-1865) were  to preserve the Union and end slavery. Under  President Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) declared that all slave people within the rebellious states would become free. However, slaves' freedom depended upon the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation reinforced the idea that the war for the Union had become a war for freedom; consequently, the abolition of slavery was a war aim.

Answer 2

To preserve the union and end slavery. basically it what Gettysburg address, written Abraham Lincoln, stated