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1 . Discuss the Emancipation Proclamation , the struggles involved in the background of this document , President Lincoln ‘s involvement in with it and its impact when finally put into effect in 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation was a document issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1 , 1863 , during the period when the American Civil War was already underway , tearing apart of the Union . With North divided against the South , the issue of slavery became extremely prominent during the onset of the Civil War . One of the major reasons [banner_entry_middle]

br for the break between the North and the South was , in fact , the issue of slavery , with the majority of Southern states having their economy and their current system dependent upon the “peculiar institution . When the Civil War broke out in the early 1860 ‘s , many slaves were escaping to Union lines and many still were volunteering to fight for the Union . As the policy stood , these slaves would have to be returned to their masters in the Confederacy . President Lincoln faced a challenge : how to keep the public opinion for his presidency and the war up in an era when abolitionists were asking for the freeing of all slaves and the rest of the North seemed to support similar actions

The ultimate answer for Lincoln was to slowly move towards the complete emancipation of the slaves . He did so in stages , the first being in 1862 when he made it law that any Union officers could not return fugitive slaves . This annulled the fugitive slave laws that were in place at the time . Southern slave owners were angered by the decision and demanded compensation for their lost goods . President Lincoln answered their anger by passing a law that all Southern slave owners that released their slaves and gave them freedom of their own will would be compensated . A milestone in the freedom of slaves came on April 16 , 1862 when all slaves in the District of Columbia were freed by their masters . The Emancipation Proclamation was put into full effect after the Union win at the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln declared his intentions to free the slaves in the Southern states . The proclamation was issued on January 1 , 1863 and its aftermath was incredible . Over 3 ,120 ,000 were freed by its words . Its enactment was responsible for turning the tide of the Civil War creating a link between slavery and the Confederacy , alienating Britain and France who they had once thought would be allies

In the end , the Emancipation Proclamation had perhaps the most impact on American history . It marked the end of slavery , the freedom of millions of African-Americans who were ill-treated and abused in the South , and changed the course of the entire nation , uniting both the North and the South with the same laws of governance . President Lincoln ‘s Emancipation Proclamation perhaps had the most impact of any document in history (Emancipation Proclamation

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