Emancipation Proclamation's Impact On American Culture

The Emancipation Proclamation would stand to set into motion one of the greatest impacts on American culture begging post Civil War era until the Civil Rights Act of 65 Structured by President John F. Kennedy, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Proclamation itself took roughly three years to finalize into the constitution. The first step was taken in July 1862 when congress placed two laws into action, “a second confiscation act that freed slaves of persons who had engaged in rebellion against the United States, and a militia act that empowered the president to use freed slaves in the army in any capacity he saw fit—even as soldiers”. (The Readers Companion to American History, 1991) This would be his first step. After Lincoln had been evaluating his position and the use of the proclamation in his war efforts and issues the preliminary proclamation after …show more content…
With great sacrifice was this war fought on American soil to liberate the American people of their improper ways of living. Today, It is undetermined actually how many conflict the US has participated in world wide, other than the major events of the American timeline of which the US has directly participated in a war, no such static would truly be accurate. What is accurate however are the statistic the US department of Veterans Affairs will share with organizations in order to support their severity. Authors of the of the Civil War Trust Organization suggest that, “Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation 's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts”. (Civil War Trust, 2014) In reference to Figure 1.2 at the end of this document, you can see just how a little over half of all US Casualties being the product of one war in comparison to other major wars the US directly participated