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What is the emancipation proclaimation?
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was a document which symbolically freed slaves in the United States.
What was the name of the document that Abraham Lincoln that gave all slaves owned by southern states their freedom?
The Emancipation Proclaimation
What slaves did the emancipation free?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the rebelling states (the confederacy) and did not free the slaves in the five border states.
What granted freedom to all the slaves in the southern states?
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclaimation in 1863. This proclaimation granted freedom to slaves in all Confederate states. It did not, however free slaves in southern states under Union control. Slavery was completely abolished with the 13th Constitutional Amendment.
How and why did African-American slavery in the southern states become worse between 1830 and 1860?
It didn't. As horrible as it was, the state of slavery remained relatively unchanged in the 1800s, until 1863 when the Emancipation Proclaimation went into effect granting slaves in the rebellious Confederacy, (but not the border states), their freedom.
What two things did the emancipation proclamation did not do?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in all of the rebel states, but it failed to set the slaves free in the 4 "border states." (Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri)
Do you thibk that he emancipation of slaves should have extended to the border states?
No. All the border states were sharply divided between pro-Union and pro-Confederate sentiment. A demand for emancipation would have tipped the balance and sent those states straight into the arms of the Confederacy.
Where did the emancipation proclamation apply to slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation was applied everywhere Union Army had seized Confederate territory and border states.
Did the emancipation proclamation immediately free all the slaves?
No the emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves immediately. instead it freed very few people because the emancipation proclamation did not apply to slaves in the border states who were fighting for the union states. it also did not act upon the slaves in the south that were already under union control.
Slaves in states that were controlled by the South were freed by the?
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
What was the result of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederacy as a strategic war move; it did not free slaves in key border states, such as Maryland and Virginia, where some slaves worked for the Union army. freed most slaves inthe confederacy NOVANET
What did the Emancipation Proclamation means for slaves living in border states that remained in the union?
It allowed the border states to continue slavery for the duration of the war. But in a roundabout way, it helped to liberate them, because it prevented Britain and France from aiding the South, and this greatly improved the chance of eventual Union victory.
