How did the emancipation proclamation affect the union and confederate armies?

Answer 1

The emancipation proclamation gave an added incentive for slaves to escape from their masters and join the army of the north, which many did. It was therefore a useful recruitment strategy for the Union.

Answer 2

The immediate effect was that Britain and France had to give up their plans to aid the Confederates, because it would make them look pro-slavery. This deprived the South of any real foreign support.

Lincoln was also hoping that it would revive Northern morale by turning the war into a moral crusade, though the mid-term elections did not reveal any new rush of abolitionism.

Although some slaves took advantage of the proclamation to leave their slaveowners, they had few places to go. Most who had wanted to leave the South had done so during the days of the "Underground Railroad" that helped escaping slaves, or during the confusion of the war.

Answer 3

The emancipation proclomation said to have freed all slaves, but since the Confederacy was still against the union, it did not have a a strong effect on the war.The reason being the south did not acknowledge the proclamation.

Answer 4

It actively began recruiting African American soldiers to fight.MORE. The slaves in the states that were freed would attach themselves to the nearest Union unit. Often they were not allowed to carry guns, but were used to cook, handle horses, and do other chores. Black union troops who enlisted were also paid less and they only had white officers.

Answer 5

It gave them a licence to liberate any slaves they found, and these became useful semi-slave labour for the armies.

The proclamation also had the effect of preventing the British from helping the Confederates, so the Union troops felt at an advantage.

Answer 6

For the South, it was disaster, because free nations abroad could no longer aid the Confederates without looking pro-slavery.

For the North, this was obviously good news. But the Proclamation did not suddenly turn the North into a nation of Abolitionists, as the mid-term elections showed.

Answer 7

The Union army was delighted to have it in play with the war, but some people at home in the north got angry and rioted because they wanted there to be all slaves to be free instead of only the slaves in the south.

Answer 8

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