What causes happened when lincoln issues the emancipation proclamation?

Answer 1

It turned the war into an official crusade against slavery, so that free nations abroad could not aid the Confederates without looking pro-slavery themselves. This succeeded in keeping Britain out of the war - an urgent priority for Lincoln.

By 'proclaiming' that Southern slaves were free, it also licensed the troops to liberate any slaves they came across on their Southern campaigns.

Answer 2

The very real danger of Britain granting recognition to the Confederacy, in the wake of Lee's successes in Summer 1862.

The Proclamation turned the war into an official crusade against slavery, so that free nations abroad could not aid the South without looking pro-slavery themselves.

Answer 3

Profound relief.

He had achieved his most urgent objective - to make it impossible for free nations abroad to help the Confederates without looking pro-slavery themselves.

As for whether most Northerners suddenly felt they were fighting a virtuous crusade against the evils of slavery, that was not at all reflected in the midterm elections that were in progress just at that time.

But Union troops were liberating slaves wherever they went in the South, and starting to realise that slavery was doomed. Sherman declared that the planters could no more get their slaves back than revive their dead grandfathers.

Answer 4

Britain and France have to stay out of the war for fear of looking pro-slavery. Their threatened intervention on the side of the Confederates was Lincoln's biggest worry in 1862.