Civil War :  How did emancipation influence the early phases of the war?  What policies were enacted?  Why was Abraham Lincoln so reluctant to embrace emancipation?

 How did emancipation influence the early phases of the war?  What policies were enacted?  Why was Abraham Lincoln so reluctant to embrace emancipation?

 

Discuss the war goals of the North and South.  How did they propose to enact them?  What influence did these war goals have on the strategies pursued by each at the beginning of the war?