Question

What was the Emancipation Proclamation? What did Lincoln want the “Proclamation” to accomplish? Describe three (3) different goals Lincoln might accomplish when he issued the Proclamation on September 22, 1862.

Answer 1

Answer:

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.

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