The answer is C, preserving the Union. Lincoln famously said, "If I could preserve the Union without freeing a single slave, I would."
He updated the old western Roman Empire laws to make them compatible with the remaining eastern Roman Empire which was about all that was left by the time he came to power in the 6th century.
<span>There were hundreds of generals commissioned in the American Civil War on both the Union and Confederate armies. Some, like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Ulysess S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman are household names.</span><span>
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The issues that caused sectionalism to develop were geographical because the people in north grew more into an industrialized society, and that's why they had industrial interest.
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