Abraham Lincoln would support the federal government to play a larger role in ending the spread of slavery.
President Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the kingdom neared its 1/3 of a 12-month bloody Civil War.
The proclamation declared "that all human beings held as slaves" in rebellious states "are and can henceforth be free".
thus, Option A is the correct statement.
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