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All slaves in areas under rebellion (the south) were free of slavery. The slaves in non rebelling states (the north) were still in slavery

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The Emancipation Proclamation was announced after the Battle of?

Sharpsburg.


What did Lincoln want before he announced the Emancipation Proclamation?

a major Union military victory


How did southerners slaves aid the northern war effort?

When Lincoln announced the emancipation proclamation, some of the slaves were free which then aided the union army to end the war.


Who announced emancipation proclamation?

President Abraham Lincoln he also wrote it himself it was to be issued on January 1st


What Abraham Lincoln accomplished as president?

He freed the slaves in the south and announced the Emancipation Proclamation which prohibted slavery.


When was the emancipation proclamation announced to the public?

President Lincoln SIGNED and ISSUED the Emancipation Proclomation. I don't believe that history is clear on whether or not he actually SPOKE it.


What document set the slaves free?

The Emancipation Proclomation


How many years apart did Abraham Lincoln died after sining the emancipation proclamation?

Lincoln announced the Proclamation in September 1862, and was assassinated in April 1865 - two and half years.


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.


Emancipation of Proclamation?

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


What step did linclon announce after the Battle of Antietam?

Freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.Lincoln issued the first Emancipation Proclamation shortly after the Battle of Antietam. It would take effect January 1, 1863.This did not effect any European power from formal recognition. least of all the world's most powerful empire with millions of "Native Peoples " under their control. One can call it forced labor. The British had already given the Confederacy "de facto " recognition as it had a constitution, a government and an army.