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Q: What was the primary union goal before the emancipation proclamation?
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When did the Union say the slaves in the Confederacy officially freed?

As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation


After what battle did Lincoln issue the emancipation proclomation?

While it wasn't immediately following, the Battle of Antietam and the Union victory there gave President Lincoln the push to issue the proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863.


What document was signed by President Lincoln in 1862?

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.


Is the south Issued Emancipation Proclamatio?

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on January 1st 1863 (Union), it freed all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states not the Union slave states.


What states did the emancipation of proclamation free the slaves?

That proclamation had little effect, other than symbolic, because the states that accepted the proclamation were the Union States, which were free states, anyhow. The Confederate States did not accept the jurisdiction of the Union government.

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What is the primary reason of the American civil war before the emancipation proclamation?

To keep the Union in one piece, and hold on to the cotton revenues.


What did Lincoln want before he announced the Emancipation Proclamation?

a major Union military victory


Who enforced the emancipation proclamation?

The Emancipation Proclamation was enforce through the advancing Union armies. As the Union soldiers advanced, slaves were freed in their wake, therefore enforcing the Proclamation


What did Lincoln want before announcing Emancipation Proclamation?

A Union Army victory, in the battle field.


What was Abraham Lincoln famous befor he died?

Lincoln was famous for saving the Union and for the Emancipation Proclamation before he died.


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.


Where did the emancipation proclamation freed enslaved people?

The Emancipation Proclamation was very carefully worded to not free anyone anywhere at the time of its writing!The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves inside states in rebellion (i.e. Confederacy) and not controlled by Union troops. These states obviously ignored the Emancipation Proclamation and did not free any slaves. At the time the Emancipation Proclamation was written Union troops did not control any of those states.The Emancipation Proclamation explicitly permitted states that had stayed in the Union to keep their slaves. This was because if the Emancipation Proclamation freed such slaves then these states would probably leave the Union and join the Confederacy. Lincoln could not afford to have that happen!In fact the Emancipation Proclamation was a Propaganda document to encourage European support for the Union, and it was not expected to have any effect on either slave masters or enslaved people.Actually freeing the enslaved people would have to wait until after the war.


Did the south free its slaves before the emancipation proclamation?

No, they had no motive to do so. The Proclamation gave each state three months to give up slavery and join the Union. But none of them did. It was the Union troops who liberated the slaves.


What were some slave states in 1863?

All of the Union states that allowed slavery before the war were not affected by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.


Where did the emancipation proclamation apply to slaves?

The Emancipation Proclamation was applied everywhere Union Army had seized Confederate territory and border states.


At what stage in the Civil War did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. (Redirected from Emancipation proclamation)Before he issued the Proclamation, President Lincoln wanted a Union victory on the battlefield. The Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was a close battle and the Union claimed victory. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, which took effect on January 1, 1863.


What was the emancipitation proclomatin?

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the states that had seceded from the Union as a movement of the war. The freed slaves became eligible to serve in the Union Army.