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Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order from President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 declaring all slaves in the confederate states free.

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The Emancipation Proclamation gave freedom to .?

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only slaves in areas at war with the union

How did abolitionists influence lincoin decision to issue the e maincipation proclamation?

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Abolitionists played a significant role in influencing Abraham Lincoln's decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Through their relentless advocacy and pressure, abolitionists highlighted the moral imperative of ending slavery and pushed Lincoln to take a more progressive stance on the issue. Their persistence and dedication ultimately persuaded Lincoln to issue the proclamation, which declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be freed.

What did the Emancion Proclamation do?

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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. It declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be considered free. However, it did not immediately free the slaves in practice as it only applied to areas controlled by the Confederacy, and it took the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to officially abolish slavery in the United States.

Why did the members of Lincoln's cabinet urge him to wait before announcing the emancipation of southern slaves?

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Because they were losing all their battles in Virginia, and it would have looked like a desperate measure.

Why did some abolitionist criticize Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation?

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The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to the Confederate states, but not all of the salve states had joined the confederacy. There were several slave states still in the Union, and they continued as slave states after the proclamation.

What result was a result of emancipation proclamation?

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The Emancipation Proclamation led to the freeing of slaves, some of which joined the Union Army (helping the Union, partly, to prevail in the Civil War). European countries did not support the South in the American Civil War. International support for the North in the American Civil War increased. More African Americans in the south joined the union army.

Which year did emancipation day start in Jamaica?

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Emancipation Day was celebrated privately until 1898, when Robert Love introduced the idea of a Convention. Out of that Convention came The People's Convention, which was set up so that the celebrations would continue in the future. 1900, the Convention ended but not the celebrations. They continued as usual until 1962

When Jamaica gained Independence in 1962, the country's leaders decided to merge the two, Emancipation and Independence, into one celebration, but over time, the commemoration of Emancipation steadily declined and the focus was more on Independence. Therefore, in 1997, it was decided that Emancipation Day should be observed as a separate National Holiday and the first official function to mark the restoration of it took place in Spanish Town where the Proclamation of Independence was read. This was done with the intention of re-awakening the spirit of the nation to its rich and colourful history.

What 2 things did emancipation proclamation do?

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1. freed all slaves in the confederate territory. souce- history texbook from school.

2. dont konw the second one

How did the war change after the Emancipation Proclamation?

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Here is an excerpt from the website Libertyletters.com:

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.

Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.

From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom.

Text taken from the National Archives website: http://archives.gov

Editor's note: Basically, the Emancipation Proclamation changed the Civil War by encouraging the slaves to fight for freedom. This also allowed them to join the Union Military to fight against the Confederate Military in order to gain freedom.

Due to the Emanicpation Proclamation, the Union Military gained more men than the already outnumbered Confederate Military, and had boosted their morale.

What group did the emancipation did not apply?

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To the African Americans in the Union, so all the African American slaves in the Confederate States were therefore set free.

Is the Emancipation Proclamation a document?

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Not directly.

In itself, it carried no force, because it concerned those states that Lincoln did not preside over. And as an anti-slavery declaration, it was inconsistent because it allowed slavery to continue in those slave-states that had not seceded.

However, it did put out a signal that any foreign country planning to help the Confederates would now be fighting for slavery, which meant that Britain and France, which had both abolished slavery, would have to stay out of it.

The Proclamation also gave the North something more emotive to fight for than the cotton revenues, at a time when war-weariness was starting to set in.

Why does the emancipation proclamation continue to impact American life today?

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yes millions of years from now we probably will still remember the Emancipation Proclamation because he says that for the victory of the union and to remember all the troops that died out there for us!!

Why did lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation so late?

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Some slave states had stayed on the side of the North. If Lincoln had abolished slavery early on in the war, those states might have joined the South, making the war that much harder to win.

When did president Lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation?

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Immediately after the Union victory at Antietam (Sept. 1862)

Which president signed the Emancipation Proclamation?

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That was President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.

Is citizenship one of the rights in the emancipation proclamation?

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No, not explicitly. Thus the 13th Amendment was felt to be necessary, to make certain the former slaves were clearly citizens. The problem was in the wording of the 13th Amendment, which enshrined "birthright citizenship" as part of the US Constitution, which was an 18th century concept, one no other nation uses, and which is archaic and even bizarre in an age when a pregnant woman changing planes in the US might give birth to a child who could then claim citizenship, even though all but a few hours of its life and its parents' lives have been lived elsewhere.

What is the emancipation proclamation's goals?

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To give the Northern public a more emotive mission than just national unity (or the cotton revenues) - a crusade against slavery.

To use this new war-aim to shame the British and French out of aiding the South.

To legitimise the freeing of slaves by Union troops in their Southern campaigns, and reduce the Southern workforce.

How did the emancipation proclamation discourage foreign powers from aiding the south?

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The Emancipation Proclamation suddenly made the war about slavery. By by the onset of the American Civil War, most other civilized nations had already recognized it for the moral abomination it was and outlawed it. Now, countries like Great Britain (which seriously considered going to war to aid the South) couldn't so without being seen as furthering the cause of slavery.