Emancipation Proclamation

Antietam.

It was the unexpected Northern victory that gave Lincoln the credibility to issue this Proclamation without making it sound like a desperate measure.

The battle was actually a tactical draw, not a real Northern victory, but Lincoln decided to go ahead anyway.

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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.

A string of Confederate victories by Lee in the summer of '62, which brought the British and French close to granting recognition to the Confederacy.

Lincoln wanted to prevent this by turning the war into an official crusade against slavery (which it hadn't been), but he had to wait for a Northern victory to issue his Proclamation without making it look like a desperate measure.

Nothing the ones up north were free, the ones down south were technically unaffected, the law had no impact on the Confederates which was technically a different nation.

Antietam, the first major battle where Lee was defeated.

It allowed Lincoln to make the proclamation from a position of strength, and not as a desperate measure.

January 1, 1863 but the Emancipation Proclamation actually didn't free ANY slaves. If you read it carefully it clearly states;

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."

The key here being the part about people being in rebblion against the United States. Lincoln was specifically refering to the Confederate States of America, where he has no authority. It specifically did not end slavery in any territory held under Union control, even in the south, New Orleans for example remained legally a legal slave holding area. No, slavery ended in the US officially on December 6, 1865 when the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.

"Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not actually free any enslaved people?"

a) European countries that suported the union

b) border states that were loyal to the union

c)territory already under control of the Union by January 1,1863

d)states still in rebellion agains the union after January 1,1863

The Emancipation Proclamation states that all black slaves within the area should be set free. This proclamation shows us that President Lincoln was thinking differently about the conflict of the war.

Through this speech, Lincoln declared that he no longer accepted slavery in any location at any time.

The purpose of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was to free all the slaves in Confederate American states that did not acknowledge Union control by January 1, 1983. This committed the Union to the purpose of abolishing all slavery in the United States.

Another purpose was perhaps to incite rebellion by the slaves in the South. It was also written to calm free black leaders in the North that were clamoring for Lincoln to do something toward ending slavery. It gave encouragement to the union army, that they were ending slavery for the most part if they won. Lincoln waited until the Union won a major victory before releasing the proclamation.

He didn't change the nature of the war from the American angle. The Proclamation was really for the ears of Britain and France, who could no longer send military aid to the Confederacy without looking pro-slavery themselves.

The Emancipataion Proclamation was created by Abraham Lincoln after he had a victory in the civil war. It said that all conferate state slaves were free. The only thing was that since the conf. and the union were not united, the confederate didn't have to do this.

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He was wanting to issue it in the summer of 1862, in order to keep the British from helping the Confederates during their string of victories under the newly-promoted Robert E. Lee. (If the war was officially declared to be a crusade against slavery, the British could not be seen to intervene on the other side.)

But if he issued it while the Confederates were winning, it would look like a desperate measure.

That's why he had to wait till the Northern victory at Antietam in September, before he made the historic Proclamation.

The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to allow blacks to fight in the Union army and to enhance the Union in cause in the eyes of the Europeans, primarily the British. To encourage African Americans to join Union armies To prevent Britain from siding with the South To encourage Northerners to keep fighting against the South

There are no new laws for the emancipation of minors in Missouri and the state does have grounds nor procedures for the such. Missouri only allows the act through the state department of social services in relation to a pregnant minor who is in need of public assistance. Other situations such as abuse or neglect are handled also handled by the MO. Department of Social Services. http://www.dss.mo.gov

Freeing all slaves in states fighting against the Union

The Emancipation Proclamation stated that Southern slaves were regarded as free men by the North.

The Emancipation Proclamation was the means by which Lincoln turned the Civil War into a war on slavery.

The Emancipation Proclamation was the first step in ending slavery in the United States.

well they feelt pretty good about it

Having turned the war into a crusade against slavery, it prevented Britain and France from intervening on the side of the Confederates. Both these countries had long since abolished slavery, and could not be seen to be fighting for slavery.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves in the Confederate states.

"...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States"

This was further clarified to be:

"... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued."

To summarize -

All slaves in Confederate states not then under control of the Union (which is why several parishes of Louisiana and several counties of Virginia were exempted including the portions of Virginia which were in the process of becoming West Virginia). Note that while Tennessee was a Confederate state, it was under Union control and thus not counted as being in rebellion - thus any slaves there had to wait for further state and federal actions before they were freed.

Not with great enthusiasm

It meant that they were licensed to liberate any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns. This would help to deprive the South of its workforce, and would obviously damage the Confederate war-effort.

However, it also meant that a lot of ex-slaves would be tagging along with the Union armies, who would have to employ them, and admit some of them into the ranks. Many white soldiers did not want to share acommodation with blacks, although many others presently saw how it could help their own promotion prospects.

The Proclamation was not popular with most Northerners, as revealed in the mid-term elections.

to prevent britain from siding with the south