Emancipation+Proclamation


 * ​the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln in the Civil War

What I already know: Who?** The slaves during the civil war and how this article affected them.
 * What?** The Emancipation Proclamation ordered the freeing of slaves in ten certain states, though mostly ignored.
 * Where?** Across the confederate states of the North that seceeded from the Union.
 * When?** During the Civil War-in the early 1860's.
 * Why?** President Abraham Lincoln thought of slavery as immoral and it tore the country apart so he thought it would be better to just put an end to it over all.
 * How?** He passed it through each house of the government (senate, congress, etc.) and it was issued to the Americans in the North, though it was mainly ignored.
 * How did this impact the Civil War, or how did the Civil War impact this?** It made many of the confederate states angrier which made them want to fight the Union and President Lincoln all the more. However it did give slavews hope.

Who?** Who did this reach to help? Who was a radical against this? Who did this affect in a negative way?
 * What I want to know (research questions):
 * What?** What prompted Lincoln to follow through with this document? What did this do the outcome of the Civil War?
 * Where?** Where was this accepted full on? Where did this hurt in a negative way (region), if any?
 * When?** When was this article first drafted? When did Lincoln come up with the idea of this document?
 * How?** How did this truly help the slaves? How was this enforced if so many people idnored it?
 * How did this impact the Civil War, or how did the Civil War impact this**? Did this drive the northeners to pull through? Did this make slaves rebel, them knowing that they should be free? Did the Civil War prompt this, or just the morals of a human being?

Who?** I could ask the teachers in the library. I could ask my history teacher. I could ask a history buff.
 * My Research Strategy:
 * What?** Expert websites, databases, encyclopedias, books, textbooks, etc.
 * Where?** During the period or at my house if needed.
 * How?** I'll use my theseis statement and research questions to figure out what to look for and what to take notes on.
 * Key words for searching:** "Emancipation Proclamation", "President Abraham Lincolm" , "Documents during the Civil War" , "Slavery Documents" , "Civil War papers" , "Documents and Civil War"

=From Preservance to Freedom= ==The Emancipation Proclamation caused a turning point in the civil war by changing the course of the action from preserving the Union to a war of the equal man. With the United States in crumbles over the conflict of slavery, it was more than necessary to issue a document controlling the battles. War or not, slavery was eating them away from a great nation.== ==Lincoln, during the beginning of the Civil War, was "pushed" by some of his military leaders and abolitionists to create a document that would free all slaves in the South. They leaned towards this because it would, in the end, help them in their war efforts. For example, the white men there were available to be drafted for the Confederate Army so their work at home (farming, planting, etc.) was taken care of because of the slave labor(Britannica Online). So with all of the efforts towards this action, Lincoln promised that, after the first Union victory in the state and mind of war, he would issue a rough draft of an emancipation document. This promise soon became a reality with the Union win at the Battle of Antietam, and a firsthand copy of a proclamation was issued. It affected nearly 3 million people. However this only staged as a warning for the confederacy. When they chose to ignore this action, it was stepped into full gear and pronounced the Final Proclamation on January 1, 1963(McPherson). The Emancipation Proclamation started out as a war effort, and naturally, in the South, it was ignored for they did not agree with the way President Lincoln handled the issue.== ==However, there were many limitations that President Lincoln had to follow. "These limitations were necessary for constitutional reasons. The President had no power to issue a proclamation to emancipate slaves generally. Such a measure would have been unconstitutional and at his inauguration he had taken an oath to uphold the Constitution. A decree purporting to free slaves generally would have had no effect as the USA was, and still is, governed by the rule of law. He could only do so insofar as it could be categorized as a 'necessary war measure'."(Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation). There were also limitations to whom it affected. It was only directed to the states whom formed the Confederacy, but not the border states. It also omitted parts of the South that was under the North's domain (Featured Document- The Emancipation Proclamation). With the existence of the Proclamation, transformations were taking place with the reason for war. The proclamation was eminent, for it changed the fight to thread the Union back together, to merely the fight for liberty. It also brought about a dramatic result of more volunteers for the union Army because of the African Americans who were now allowed to become liberators (Britannica Online).== ==Even with all of the limitations placed upon the president towards the issue of slavery, his Emancipation Proclamation did have two major effects. Because of all of the slaves who fled to the north towards freedom, the plantations suffered which effected the agriculture industry of the south. And the second reason, it helped the destruction of the Confederate States which initially was the rise of the Union (Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation). The Emancipation Proclamation is one of he main reasons that the North pulled through even stronger against the South to win the war.== ==From the beginning prospers of the Civil War, slaves were performing acts to support their own natural rights that had not yet been granted to them. This Document soon gave them a living chance that the war, for the Union, was not one for the unity of the United States, but moreover a war for the rights of all mankind. It strengthened the Union both morally and politically. And as this was only a steppingstone into the world of no slavery, "the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom."(Featured Document- The Emancipation Proclamation). The document has, and forever will, have a place among the most historic documents in our history.== ==Overall, the Emancipation Proclamation changed over a course of time. It helped deal with the major issue of slavery and what should be morally right in the war. This document also helped the process of speeding up the war for it gave both sides a strong issue to fight over. The Emancipation Proclamation was the start of equal rights in America. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights..."==

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