USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

[SOURCES]
Did the emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves within the United states?

(A) Their attitude changed towards the war when Lincoln set them free Europe became a state of neutrality and didn’t want to be involved

(B) Lincoln says the war is warranted by the fact that he see a fit and necessary war

(C) He asked the favor of the slaves to leave in peace

(D) ** Only the slaves states in rebellion were freed

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -It applied only to states that had seceded from the United States, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy (the Southern secessionist states) that had already come under Northern control.

Concept note-2: -Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of African Americans, and fundamentally transformed the character of the war from a war for the Union into a war for freedom.

Concept note-3: -Slavery was not abolished by the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation applied only to enslaved people in states that were in rebellion in 1863, namely South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina.

Concept note-4: -That was the situation in the country on January 1, 1863, when Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation-a long name for a long document (it went on for five pages!). You might have heard that it freed all slaves, but that isn’t true. Only a small number of the country’s 4 million slaves were freed immediately.