AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The confederates believed that the Emancipation Proclamation was wrong as it reaped them of their labor system that had worked for many years. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery throughout America completely leading all slaves to the freedom they deserved.
Detailed explanation-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.”
Detailed explanation-3: -It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion. It also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union’s available manpower.
Detailed explanation-4: -Despite that 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.