Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

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Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

• By John and Allison

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Before Emancipation Proclamation

• Civil War rationale
• Not about abolition of slavery
• Wanted to keep the Union together
• Lincoln
• Overruled two military commanders who tried to
  abolish slavery

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Emancipation Proclamation

• Lincoln worked on the initial draft secretly
• Did not inform cabinet members until first draft
  finished
• Lincoln issued preliminary Emancipation
  Proclamation on September 22, 1862 after Battle
  of Antietam

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Emancipation Proclamation

• Confederates were to return to the Union by
  January 1, 1863
• If not, all slaves shall be then henceforward,
  and forever free.
• Border states like Tennessee, Maryland, Kentucky,
  and parts of Louisiana and Virginia were exempt.

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Issues Proclamation solved

• Military
• Proclamation necessary because it seized enemy
  territory
• Foreign Affairs
• England and France had been considering
  recognizing the Confederacy as a country, but the
  proclamation ended these inclinations

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Reactions to the issuing of the Proclamation

• Peace Democrats
• Republican fears
• Lincoln and Radical Republicans
• Thirteenth Amendment December 1865

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Works Cited

• Maier, Pauline et al. Inventing America A
  History of the United States. New York W.W.
  Norton Company, 2003
• "Emancipation Proclamation". Travel History.
  12-9-09 lthttp//www.u-s-history.com/pages/h119.htm
  lgt.