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It allowed the border states to continue slavery for the duration of the war.

But in a roundabout way, it helped to liberate them, because it prevented Britain and France from aiding the South, and this greatly improved the chance of eventual Union victory.

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The Emancipation proclamation freed enslave people living where?

Southern states in rebellion.


Why did lincolns emancipation proclamation free slaves only in the south?

Because he didn't want to upset powerful slave-owners in the border states, and drive them into the arms of the Confederacy. Answer 2: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was intended to make a statement that the war was intended to end slavery. There were many factors involved with the cause of the war however, he wanted to focus on ending slavery. He felt this would rally more people behind their cause. Interesting that the Emancipation Proclamation did not really free any slave when it was signed. If a slave was living in a Southern state then the Proclamation had no effect until the Union army took over control of that area. There were a few examples of people in the Northern states who still owned slaves for a few years after the proclamation was released.


Why didn't the Emancipation Proclamation free the border states?

The Emancipation Proclamation only gave freedom to the slaves in the 10 states which were in rebellion against the Union. Slavery remained legal in Union and border states until the ratification of the 13th Amendment.


Who did not include in the Emancipation Proclamation?

Nobody is freed by a Proclamation - only by a law. The Proclamation declared that slaves in the Confederate states were 'thenceforward and forever free' - meaning that Union troops on enemy soil were allowed to liberate any slaves they found. And by implication, that if the Union eventually won the war, and if the same Republican government was still in power, there would be moves to make slavery illegal. The same Proclamation did not affect the four slave-states that had remained loyal to the Union. Lincoln had no wish to upset the people of these 'buffer' states and drive tem into the arms of the Confederacy. This also reminds us that Lincoln was not an abolitionist. He had rejected the final compromise, not in pursuit of abolition, but only because it would have allowed some new slave-states.


The standard of living in the soviet remained very low as late as which?

1930

Related Questions

Where was Lincoln living when he wrote the emancipation proclamation?

In the White House.


The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves living in areas in rebellion?

No.


What document freed all slaves living in confedrate states?

The Emancipation Proclamation.


Which document freed living in states in rebellion again the union?

US President Lincoln issued his final emancipation proclamation in January of 1863. The proclamation decreed that slaves in the Confederate States were free. It had no immediate affect in that most of the slaves in the Confederacy, remained under the control of their "owners".


Which of these is an element of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Slaves living in the Confederate states during the Civil War were freed.


What wartime act by Abraham Lincoln freed those slave living in rebellious states?

The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln's wartime act that freed slaves.


What does emancipation proclamatiob do?

The emancipation proclamation gave all slaves still living in slave states their freedom. It was issued in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.


Who were the people that were for the Emancipation Proclamation?

The Abolitionists, the Quakers, the Radical Republicans, most people living in the North, the Slaves.


The emancipation proclamation enslaved people living where?

states still in rebellion against the Union after January 1, 1863


How did the emancipation proclamation affect the slaves living in the south?

It licensed the Union troops to liberate any slaves they came across.


The Emancipation proclamation freed enslave people living where?

Southern states in rebellion.


Why was Abraham Lincoln important to slavery?

Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves living in the US by giving his famous Emancipation Proclamation. Addendum: This statement is not correct. The Emancipation Proclamation only offered freedom to those Southern Slaves able to escape to the North. Slavery was practiced before his Proclamation in the North as well as after and until 6 months after the Civil War.