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Who enforced the emancipation proclamation?

The Emancipation Proclamation was enforce through the advancing Union armies. As the Union soldiers advanced, slaves were freed in their wake, therefore enforcing the Proclamation


What was Union army's response to the emancipation proclamation?

It allowed African Americans to serve in non-combat positions only


After which battle did Lincoln announce the Emancipation Proclamation following the Union victory?

Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam.


Which President proclaimed that the slaves in the southern states were to be freed?

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.


Where did the emancipation proclamation freed enslaved people?

The Emancipation Proclamation was very carefully worded to not free anyone anywhere at the time of its writing!The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves inside states in rebellion (i.e. Confederacy) and not controlled by Union troops. These states obviously ignored the Emancipation Proclamation and did not free any slaves. At the time the Emancipation Proclamation was written Union troops did not control any of those states.The Emancipation Proclamation explicitly permitted states that had stayed in the Union to keep their slaves. This was because if the Emancipation Proclamation freed such slaves then these states would probably leave the Union and join the Confederacy. Lincoln could not afford to have that happen!In fact the Emancipation Proclamation was a Propaganda document to encourage European support for the Union, and it was not expected to have any effect on either slave masters or enslaved people.Actually freeing the enslaved people would have to wait until after the war.


What really freed the slave's the emancipation proclamation or the 13Th amendment?

The Emancipation Proclamation could only free slaves in areas held by Union Armies. It did not apply in neutral states (Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, etc.) and also didn't apply where Federal troops had not yet reached (Texas). The final emancipation occurred with the 13th Amendment.


What the Battle of Antietam meant for the Union Army in the future?

It enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which kept Britain and France out of the war. It meant that the Union armies would only have to face the dwindling numbers of the Confederates alone.


What legal argument gave union armies the right to free captured southern slaves?

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, effective from January 1863, which declared all Southern slaves to be free.


Where did the emancipation proclamation apply to slaves?

The Emancipation Proclamation was applied everywhere Union Army had seized Confederate territory and border states.


Why did the emancipation not affect slaves in Louisiana?

Legally, it had no impact, because Louisiana was a member of Confederate States, over which Lincoln and his Proclamation had no authority. As for the prospect of Union armies liberating local slaves, those armies were urgently needed in Chattanooga, and did not occupy Louisiana.


What was the emancipitation proclomatin?

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the states that had seceded from the Union as a movement of the war. The freed slaves became eligible to serve in the Union Army.


Who wrote and what is emancipation proclamation?

The Emacipation Proclamation was written by Abraham Lincoln. It stated that there was to be no more slavery in the Union states.