The Emancipation Proclamation was exactly, precisely, what the Confederacy did not want to happen with regard to the issue of slavery. Why on Earth would they stop fighting because of it? Also, slavery was really only one of the issues underlying the War of Northern Aggression (admittedly, it was a pretty big one).
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued during the Civil War; Reconstruction was the period following the war.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery in Confederate states and weaken the Southern economy during the Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued 1 January 1863. It was issued during the American Civil War. This took place from 1861-1865.
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free enslaved people in Confederate states during the Civil War, in order to weaken the Confederacy and strengthen the Union's cause.
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free enslaved people in Confederate states during the Civil War, in order to weaken the Confederacy and strengthen the Union's cause.
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.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued during the Civil War; Reconstruction was the period following the war.
Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and the author of the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
emancipation proclamation was something Lincoln passed to free the slaves in the confederate are during the civil war
The Emancipation Proclamation is a document written during the Civil War freeing slaves in the southern (Confederate) states. Abraham Lincoln signed the document.
The Emancipation Proclamation was written by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War in 1863.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish slavery in Confederate states and weaken the Southern economy during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Yes - in 1863.
during the war
The Emancipation Proclamation was the proclamation that Lincoln gave during the civil war that freed the slaves.