The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Lincoln’s reason for fighting the South in the Civil War changed from the beginning of the war as it progressed in that first, what he tried to avoid was the secession of some states such as Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Louisiana. These states formed the Confederation of States or commonly known as the Confederates., when Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennesse, and Virginia, decided to secede too. }
The Civil War started on April 12, 1861, with the Battle of Fort Sumter, in Charleston South Carolina. As the war progressed, President Lincoln included the issue of slavery in his arguments to battle the Confederates. Abolitionists from the northern states had exerted too much pressure on the issue of slavery in the South.
