(A) freed people could fill job openings
(B) ** take away support for the Confederacy
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -From the first days of the Civil War, enslaved people 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.
Concept note-2: -Even one full year into the Civil War, the elimination of slavery was not a key objective of the North. Despite a vocal Abolitionist movement in the North, many people and many soldiers, in particular, opposed slavery, but did not favor emancipation.
Concept note-3: -Northerners viewed Lincoln as the “Great Emancipator”. The Confederacy did not view the Emancipation Proclamation as a good idea as they would lose valuable labor that lead to an increased production and a better economy through a southerner’s eyes.
Concept note-4: -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."