In issuing the emancipation proclamation, one of lincoln's goals was to (a) gain the active aid of britain and france in restori
ng the union (b) stir up enthusiasm for the war in such border states as maryland and kentucky (c) please the radicals in the north by abolishing slavery in areas of the south already under the control of union armies (d) please russia, one of the union's few overseas friends, where the serfs had been emancipated the previous year (e) keep britain and france from intervening on the side of the confederacy.
Lincoln was attempting to make the war about the South's slaves so that the now largely slave-less France and Britain would refuse to support the South.
