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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. During the Civil war the United States were separated into four different parts,
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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 • During the Civil war the United States were separated into four different parts, • The union states, • The boarder states, • The Confederate states, • And territory. Unionstates Territory Confederate states Border states
The reason for the Emancipation Proclamation • The main reason for the Emancipation Proclamation was not to free slaves, but to “save the union” • 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 • The Emancipation Proclamation Freed all slaves living in the states that had left the union. • As a result most former slaves worked as laborers or joined the Union military, which eased the Union’s shortage of soldiers. • 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.
