RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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How was the Emancipation Proclamation harmful to the South?
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Slaves would join the confederate army
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Only male slaves would be freed.
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the South could keep their slaves if they stopped fighting.
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The slaves could decide if they wanted to remain on the plantations.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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 Union control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory.
Detailed explanation-2: -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."
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