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Good question - what was it?
It looked like a human rights document, appealing for a crusade against the evils of slavery.
In fact, it was an urgent tactical measure brought on by the war situation, where Britain looked like sending military aid to the Confederates.
If Lincoln could turn the war into an official crusade against slavery, then Britain would have to stay out, having aboloshed its own slavery thirty years earlier.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe Emancipation Proclamation freed southern slaves (almost all of them). But it did free them until 1863. It became a law on the 1st day of January in 1863 (yes,... when it freed slaves () when it became a law it freed them)
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How did the emancipation proclamation feel about the war?
The emancipation Proclamation doesn't have feeling.....
Why was the Thirteenth Amendment necessary if President Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Emancipation Proclamation was not a law but an executive order by the president. It needed the 13th amendment to the US Constitution to give it the weight and force of law.
Emancipation of Proclamation?
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
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.
Who made the emancipation proclamation a federal law?
The Emancipation Proclamation was never a law. It was an executive action used as a war measure in the US Civil War.
What did Lincoln sign into law on January 1st 1863?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What did president Lincoln sign into law on January 1 1863?
the Emancipation Proclamation
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.....
Name of the document that free slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation.
Why was the Thirteenth Amendment necessary if President Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Emancipation Proclamation was not a law but an executive order by the president. It needed the 13th amendment to the US Constitution to give it the weight and force of law.
What was the law that allowed white and African Americans to attend the same schools?
Emancipation Proclamation
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.
