Emancipation Proclamation Turning Point

On January 1, 1863, an important document was applied which freed all slaves in rebellious states or designated part of a state. This was the Emancipation Proclamation signed and established by President Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation read "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.” Abraham Lincoln’s main focus in the creation of this document was to con the Confederate states to give up their fight against the Union and join the United States of America once again. The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was a significant event in many ways and was an important turning point in the Civil War. One importance of the Emancipation Proclamation was that the establishment …show more content…
The Civil War was a war between the Confederates and the Union. The Union was the name used to account for the twenty-three Free states and the five boarder states of the United States of America. The Confederates were a group of states which consisted of the eleven seceded Southern states in rebellion against the rest of the United States. The Civil War had begun because of the difference in opinions between the North and the South which dealt with the declaration that all men were created with equal right to liberty, no matter their race. The Confederate states wanted to keep slavery in their states while it also expanded slavery into the new states. President Lincoln elected to keep slavery in the states that it was already existent in, while keeping the new territories free of slavery. This is what started the Civil War of 1861-1865. When the Civil War began it was believed to only last a few months. People sat on the hills and watched the first battle of the Civil War take place. The first battle of Bullrun/Manassas was said to be the largest and one of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War due to all of the confusion and chaos between the Confederates and the