What did people at the time think would happen if congress outlawed slavery for the whole nation?

Review the following types of government and match the style to it's definition type of dictatorship in which one person has complete control of the government government in which the people elect representatives to make government decisions for them government in which all people directly participate in government decisions government power is shared between a national government and regional (state) governments government has almost complete control; makes most decisions government power is centralized in regional (state) governments and they work together in a loose national government 1. authoritarian government 2. autocracy 3. confederal government 4. direct democracy 5. federal government 6. representative democracy

This was an order issued during the civil war by president lincoln ending slavery in the confederate states

Which term do historians use to describe the personal preferences that people have that affect their interpretation of events