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It's iffy at best. Lincoln called on his position as Commander in Chief and his ability to issue a federal order "as a necessary war measure" that slaves in the rebel states could be regarded as free.

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Is the Emancipation Proclamation constitutional?

Do you mean is it an amendment to the Constitution? No, it was not an Amendment to the Constitution. The 13th Amendment was passed in 1865, after the Civil War ended to make slavery illegal. The Emancipation Proclamation was delivered early in 1863.


What document set the slaves free?

The Emancipation Proclomation


How did the emancipation proclamation feel about the war?

The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....


Emancipation of Proclamation?

When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)


What was the name of Lincoln's announcement that he would free the slaves?

That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.


What occurred first Formation of the Ku Klux Klan Gettysburg address Presidential election of 1876 Emancipation proclamation?

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Which President proclaimed that the slaves in the southern states were to be freed?

Lincoln. But they were freed by Union troops during their Southern campaigns, not by the Proclamation, which was mainly a tatcic to shame the British out of helping the cause of slavery.


Was the Emancipation Proclamation linked to the Fall of Vicksburg?

No, Vicksburg's fall had no bearing on the Emancipation Proclamation.


What was emancipation proclamation intended to do?

The emancipation proclamation was intended to free all slaves in the South.


Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?

The Emancipation proclamation did not free the slaves in which state?


Who was freed by the emancipation proclamation in which region?

Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.


When was the emancipation of proclamation written?

The Emancipation Proclamation was written on September twenty-second of 1862