Answer: Lincoln was giving the Union an additional, stronger reason for fighting and winning the war. He was also adding another source of soldiers for the Union Army, and blocking foreign powers from allying with the Confederacy.
Lincoln didn't free slaves in all the United States because he wanted to retain the loyalty of some states which had slavery but were loyal to the Union.
"Surrogate wars" also known as "proxy wars" are wars fought in a third country. The US and the Soviet Union were fighting each other in, for example, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
They preferred proxy wars, because they came without civilian victims of own population and without a distraction of the infrastructure of their own countries. In short, the two powers could compete militarily with each other without suffering the worst effects of the wars - this situation allowed them to try to defeat the other one without much risk to their own population.
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It was the state of "Virginia" in which <span>the first successful colony, Jamestown, was settled. It was successful largely to its ability to plant and harvest tobacco, which was in high demand in Europe. </span>
