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A Proclamation is not an Act.
Lincoln's Proclamation simply 'proclaimed' that all slaves in the rebel states would be considered free from January 1st 1863, and that Union troops were licensed to liberate any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns.
It looked like a failed human-rights document, making empty threats to all the states that he didn't control.
In fact, the most urgent reason for issuing it was to keep Britain and France from sending aid to the South. By turning the war into an official crusade against slavery, Lincoln made it impossible for free nations abroad to recognise the Confederacy without looking pro-slavery themselves.
In this, it was totally successful, and ended Lincoln's nightmare-prospect of foreign intervention on the side of the enemy.
But the troops were also able to damage the Southern economy by reducing their workforce, and putting these freed blacks to work in the service of the Union armies.
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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. :)
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.
Did the US Congress issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
No. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What does the emancipation proclamation act do?
Frees Slaves
What wartime act by Abraham Lincoln freed those slave living in rebellious states?
The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln's wartime act that freed slaves.
What document set the slaves free?
The Emancipation Proclomation
What act or event during the civil war and reconstuction freed the slaves?
The emancipation proclamation
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?
