USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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How would the Emancipation Proclamation be enforced?

(A) The Confederacy had to win the war

(B) ** The Union had to win the war

(C) Each state had to approve the Emancipation Proclamation

(D) The majority of the states had to approve the Emancipation Proclamation

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -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.

Concept note-2: -White supremacists in the United States were outraged. Condemning Lincoln, The Cincinnati Enquirer said that the proclamation represented the “complete overthrow of the Constitution he swore to protect and defend.” All over the North white bigots called the proclamation “wicked, ” “atrocious” and “impudent.”