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The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during theAmerican Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly all the rest (of the 3.1 million) freed as Union armies advanced. The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, did not itself outlaw slavery, and did not make the ex-slaves (called freedmen) citizens.
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What did the emancipation proclomation do.?
it free'd all the slaves in the south
Who was there when Abe signed the emancipation proclamation?
President Abraham Lincoln was most likely the onley person in the Oval Office when he signed the Emancipation proclomation.
What was first proclamation or Treaty of Paris?
It matters whether you are talking about the proclomation of 1763 or womething else. If so, then the proclomation came first, as the Treaty of Paris was in 1783.
When did slaves become free?
the slaves were not freed from the emancipation proclomation. the emancipation proclomation had no effect because President Lincoln has no authroity over what happens in the confederate staes and the border states. they didn't become free until some time after the civil war ended.
Was the emancipation proclomation signed in the Gettysburg Address?
No. The two were very different documents, and served very different purposes. The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order, written, signed and issued by President Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address was a speech, written and given by President Lincoln in order to dedicate a national cemetery to the men that died during the Battle of Gettysburg.
What were the four most important accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln?
emancipation proclomation is one
When was the emancipation proclomation?
1863
Who objected to the emancipation proclomation?
why did the emancipation apply only to the confederacy
What document set the slaves free?
The Emancipation Proclomation
Who made he emancipation proclomation?
Abraham Lincoln
What year did the emancipation proclomation take place?
1863
Which document forbids slavery in us?
Emancipation Proclomation
What did the emancipation proclomation do.?
it free'd all the slaves in the south
What year did president Lincoln sigh the emancipation proclomation?
1984
Who issued the emancipation proclomation freeing to slaves?
Abraham Lincoln
Why abraham lincoln is so famous?
He was the president during the Civil War. also the leader of Union and the Emancipation Proclomation.
What is the key battle of 1862 that led to the emancipation proclomation?
the battle of Antietam
