Causes Of The Emancipation Proclamation

The emancipation proclamation was a blessing for the enslaved African Americans in the south. This caused issues between the North and the South because the South tried to keep the blacks from attaining rights while the North having radical republicans was trying to give them right. Congressional Reconstruction failed to achieve lasting civil rights for the freemen and because even with the rights the freemen and women were still treated just as if they were slaves. The radical republicans believed blacks were entitled to the same political right and opportunities as whites. They felt that they had to create laws designed to protect the emancipated blacks. Congress introduced a bull that would extend the Freedman's bureau and