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What was the name of Lincoln's announcement that he would free the slaves?
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∙ 13y ago
That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Who made the announcement that slaves were free?
you mom did.
What did lincolns emancipation declare?
slaves in confederate states to be free
What did lincolns emancipation proclamation declare?
All slaves in the confederate states were free.
What was the announcement by president Lincoln that declared that all slaves in confederate territory would be considered free?
That would be the Emancipation Proclamation.
What were some of the major civil rights accomplishments of the Lincolns?
free the slaves
Who helped free over three hundred slaves during the civil war?
It's all Lincolns fault.
What was lincolns stated goal about the peace after the war?
Lincoln's stated goal about peace after the war was for slaves to be free , and be able to start their own life .
What was the main point to lincolns 1st inaugural address?
To say that people should be treated free and equal! To say that blacks should not be slaves! And for them to be free.. But look where that got America..
Why would Slaves choose the city of Oberlin to visit?
Slaves would be free there.
Where the slaves really free?
Some slaves thought they would be free if they worked hard, but their masters would just keep them if they worked well. If they were bad their master would kill them, so no, the slaves were not really free.
Lincolns decision to free the slaves?
That was the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared Southern slaves to be 'thenceforward and forever free', but only in the states that Lincoln did not control! (He allowed slavery to continue in the four slave-states that had remained loyal.) Lincoln was not actually deciding to free the slaves. He was making it look like that, so that free nations abroad could not aid the Confederates without looking pro-slavery themselves.
What day did Abraham Lincoln say that slavery was over?
January 1, 1863 was the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln, stating the slaves were free. The 13th Amendment, added to the US Constitution in 1865, would actually give the force of law to the freedom for the slaves that Lincolns document put forth.
