Transcript The Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation
Proclamation
How enslaved people gained their
freedom
By: Elijah T. Benouis
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the
Person who signed the
Emancipation Proclamation.
The Union States
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During the Civil war the United States were
separated into four different parts,
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The union states,
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The boarder states,
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The Confederate states,
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And territory.
Union states
Territory
Confederate states
Border states
The reason for the
Emancipation Proclamation
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The main reason for the Emancipation Proclamation
was not to free slaves, but to “save the union”
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Abraham Lincoln even wrote a letter to Horace
Greeley, publisher of the New York Tribune saying
that his main object in this struggle [Civil war] is to
save the Union, and is neither to destroy or save
slavery.
The result
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The Emancipation Proclamation Freed all slaves
living in the states that had left the union.
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As a result most former slaves worked as laborers or
joined the Union military, which eased the Union’s
shortage of soldiers.
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The Emancipation Proclamation also hurt the south’s
hope of getting help from Britain and France,Since
most British and French citizens opposed slavery
France and Britain supported the Union instead.
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