AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Northerners would want to help the slaves in the south
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Lincoln just wanted to set them free
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Some of the slaves worked as nurses, cooks, and things valuable to the war effort in the south.
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In order to get help from France, Lincoln had to free the slaves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why could Lincoln only free the slaves in the states that were in rebellion and not all of the slaves throughout the country? The president did not have the power to end slavery within the United States; this would have been a matter of changing the Constitution, which cannot be done by the president alone.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lincoln continued to maintain that he would not interfere with slavery where it existed. However, as a result of Union battlefield losses by July 1862, the President had decided that emancipation was a military necessity. Lincoln knew that many thousands of enslaved people were ready to fight for the Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lincoln thought colonization could resolve the issue of slavery. For much of his career, Lincoln believed that colonization-or the idea that a majority of the African American population should leave the United States and settle in Africa or Central America-was the best way to confront the problem of slavery.