How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the US Civil War?

Answer 1

it made it ok for the Union soldiers to free slaves as they went through the south

Answer 2

Slaves would be free after the war was over. This increase moral for Northerners and confirmed the main cause of the war, slavery. Prior to this President Lincoln fought to end the rebellion to keep the US in tact.

Answer 3

The January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation affected the Confederacy in a number of ways. Most significantly, it galvanized the fighting spirit of many Southerners, as the war had become an explicit contest for the existence (or extinction) of slave-holding. Additionally, it effectively negated the possibility of any European support for the South's cause, as European nations were now faced with the unacceptable prospect of formally supporting an institution that had been made illegal through President Lincoln's publicly expressed proclamation.

Answer 4

The January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation changed the course of the American Civil War in several distinctive ways. For one thing, it deepened the passions of many of the participants, perhaps thereby extending the war and increasing the severity of the fighting involved. For another thing, it brought the long-standing issue of slavery into the spotlight of the conflict, no longer keeping it peripheral or at any distance: the stakes were raised, and the issue of slave-holding would now be decided on the battlefield, one way or the other.

Answer 5

The two part Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln was stated as a "war measure" and clearly placed pressure on the Confederacy. With that said, its effects were not totally positive. Many Northerners believed that it was worth a war to save the Union but not worth a war and Union lives to end slavery. Most Americans and US states had laws that made even Free Blacks second class citizens. Special internal units were created in the Union armies to educate whites regarding the implementation of Black soldiers into the ranks. In addition, the emancipation had to be handled very delicately by President Lincoln concerning the slave border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. Lincoln throughout most of the war tried unsuccessfully to convince Northern slave owners to free their slaves gradually over as long as two generations and pay the owners for freeing their slaves. No border state accepted Lincoln's very good ideas.

Another bad effect was that in some parts of the South, the idea that their economies and social structure would change with a Union victory only strengthened their resolve to fight on.

Answer 6

It prevented Britain and France from sending aid to the South. (It would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.)