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    In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was a document written by Abraham Lincoln. This document stated, all slaves are free in all areas that were in rebellion against the United States. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was involved in the Civil War, which led the charge of Fort Wagner that became one of the most famous units during the Civil War because African Americans volunteered. As many African Americans were being a part of the North many of them were joining the Union Army. With the…

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    The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared that slaves in rebellious states were now free. However, it didn't actually end up freeing any slaves. The states in rebellion ignored it because they believed they were no longer under the power of the United States government, and the proclamation didn't apply to the border states - slave holding states that were still loyal to the Union. It also could be viewed as a war measure, which would make it only…

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    Emancipation is the essential freedom from slavery, and was the crucial process for American Americans to abandon their metaphorical, and, in some instances, physical chains which bound them to a lifetime of servitude and injustice in the American South. Although often viewed as a single and solitary act simply ordered on federal terms, emancipation as a whole was a collective entity of efforts by many during the period of the beginning of the American Civil War, 1861 to the beginning of…

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    Beginning in 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation became effective. It was a presidential proclamation issued under Abraham Lincoln that had the goal of “practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States”. One of the main goals was the succession of the southern states back into the United States. Another was freeing the slaves. He mentioned how he would use all of his power as president to achieve these goals.This demonstrated the President’s executive war powers.…

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    The emancipation proclamation changed lives, whether people saw it as a good reason or bad. As the country faced its third year of civil war, Abraham Lincoln said “all” slaves are forever free. Well all slaves in southern rebellion states that is, he did not want affiliate with Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri. People came to realize it didn 't really freed the slaves there were terms and conditions. There were good intentions behind it but it was mostly for military purposes. Although…

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    The American Civil War began in order to restore the union and not to abolish slavery. In 1862 , president Abraham Lincoln got the idea of expanding the goals of the war for the purpose of saving the country. The Emancipation Proclamation made a radical change in the aims of Lincoln’s policy. As a commander in Chief , Abraham Lincoln declared the liberation of enslaved African Americans who lived in Confederacy states knowing that they were in rebellion. The Proclamation was…

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    I. The first way that President Abraham Lincoln is a significant person is because he helped to end slavery in the United States A. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. 1. After calling on the seceded states to return to the Union or have their slaves declared free, Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation on January 1, 1863. a. Even though the edict had no power in the Confederacy, it did provide moral inspiration for the North and discouraged European countries from…

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    demonstration of liberating the majority of the slaves." On December 31,1862 a bureau part and the leader of the Treasury Division was a man named Samuel P. Pursue alongside others included their recommendation and proposals the demonstration. The Emancipation Proclamation was the second and last draft composed by Lincoln and updated alongside recommendations. He went to his guides who recommended he ought to hold up until the Union accomplished triumph over the Alliance. after the Union 's…

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    was not traditionally an abolitionist, his view point on slavery was that it should not be expanded further into new territories and once elected he called for a gradual emancipation. Lincoln was indifferent to slavery, his ultimate goal was to save the union and if that meant freeing slaves, then so be it. Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation…

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    accompanied it were enough to touch the president’s heart (Emancipation Proclamation Little People 2). Although Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a document freeing about 3.1 million slaves in the United States, a year earlier, many felt it did not go far enough (Emancipation Proclamation 3). The abolitionists, moderate anti-slavery advocates, slaves, and people from the South each reacted differently toward the Emancipation Proclamation and pressured the President from different…

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