Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln didn't use the Declaration of Independence for the emancipation proclamation. The Declaration of Independence was a letter to the king telling why the colonies were declaring independence.

President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in rebellious areas of the US in 1863. All other slaves had been freed in the North.

Britain and France were close to granting recognition to the Confederacy, and Lincoln had to turn the war into an official crusade against slavery, to shame them out of doing this.

His tactic was totally successful. Europe had to stay out of it.

The Emancipation Proclamation was not a law but an executive order by the president. It needed the 13th amendment to the US Constitution to give it the weight and force of law.

South Carolina December 20, 1860

Mississippi January 9, 1861

Florida January 10, 1861

Alabama January 11, 1861

Georgia January 19, 1861

Louisiana January 26, 1861

Texas February 1, 1861

Virginia April 17, 1861

Arkansas May 6, 1861

North Carolina May 20, 1861

Tennessee June 8, 1861

The Proclamation did not free the slaves in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware.

Also, it was only a Proclamation, not an amendment.

He didn't especially.

He wanted to issue it in July 1862, when Lee was on a winning streak, and the British were close to granting recognition to the Confederacy. This would be his means of heading them off, because they could not aid the South after that, without looking pro-slavery themselves.

But his cabinet told him that it would look like a desperate measure, and he would have to wait for a Union victory. This came (unexpectedly) in September, and then Lincoln promptly issued his Proclamation.

abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation jan. 1st 1863

the emancipation proclamtion freed the slaves from slavery

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People were debating whether or not it was a good idea because slaves could have taken jobs white people thought they needed, but theres more to it than that

The South declared it was illegal and immoral.

In the North, the abolitonists complained that it didn't go far enough. (The Border states were alowed to continue practising slavery.)

But most Northerners were not abolitionists, and were not particularly impressed with it, as the mid-term elections showed.

The main impact was actually the one at the front of Lincoln's mind - to make it impossible for Britain and France to aid the Confederates without looking pro-slavery themselves.

International support for the North in the American Civil War increased.

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The main theme surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation is slavery in the 19th century. The document legally set all slaves free in the Union but had no real effect on the South until the end of the US Civil War.

Here's all Tennessee law has to say about it: Tennessee Jurisprudence under Parent and Child § 18

§ 18. Generally.--Emancipation may result from an agreement, or it may occur by operation of law, and generally the emancipation of a child leaves the child, as far as the parent is concerned, free to act on the child's own responsibility and in accordance with his own will and pleasure, with the same independence as though he had attained majority. Emancipation of a child may be express, as by voluntary agreement of the parent and child, or implied from such acts and conduct as import consent, and it may be conditional or absolute, complete or partial

those who agreed with Lincoln that Slavery should not extend into the new territories.

The south wasn't part of the US at that time, so to all the areas where it pertained, there were no slaves.

The draft went down badly with the rank-and-file, and the families of the draftees, because it was allowable for a young man of military age to pay a substitute to do his service for him - if he could afford it. This seemed unfair, and the substitutes ere mostly useless.

The draft also went down badly with many of the newly-arrived Irish immigrants, who were seeking a better life, and objected to being conscripted into a war about which they knew and cared little.

The Emancipation Proclamation failed to make the North feel patriotic, and the Abolitionists objected to it because it allowed slavery to continue in the slave-states that had remained loyal.

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it abolished slavery

It didn't abolish slavery itself. There is still slavery today, believe it or not! The Proclamation itself didn't do altogether that much. It just showed that all the black slaves SHOULD be set free. In fact immediately after the proclamation was published it didn't do altogether that much immediately but the slaves started of thinking of President Lincoln as if he was a savior! And that's the truth!

Because it carried a moral dimension that would keep Britain, France or any other free nation from sending aid to the Confederates.

The northerners were inspired to fight under

No, the Emancipation Proclamation was written by Abraham Lincoln after conferring with Frederick Douglass.

they were freed

No, it did not abolish slavery, because it related only to slaves in the South, where Lincoln had no authority, and did not ban slavery in the North, where he did have authority.

It was a 'declaration', aimed at officially turning the war into a crusade against slavery, in order to restore Northern morale, and more urgently to keep the British from sending aid to the South.

It also licensed Union troops to rob the enemy of his slaves wherever the armies went in the South, and if the North were to win, it was obvious that those slaves could never be returned to their one-time owners.

It made it hard for foreign nations to recognize and support the confederacy