How Did Lincoln Deserve The Emancipation Proclamation

On April 14, 1865 our 16th President Abraham Lincoln at age 56 was assassinated by 26 year old John Wilkes Booth. In Washington D.C. roughly about 10 P.M. President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head at ford's theater. The assassination happened because John Wilkes Booth and his supporters did not agree with what freedom Lincoln had planned to give to the African Americans.
African Americans during Lincoln's presidency stood held under slavery in the confederate southern states and free in the union states but did not have equal rights as White people. So Lincoln’s first tasks was to save the union then he would set out to free all slaves . Freed African Americans in the union were allowed participate, and take part in fighting war. Roughly
Lincoln issued this saying that "that all persons held as slaves" That are the rebellious southern states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Citizens of the south were not for the Emancipation Proclamation due to the fact that they lose all free labor, and so because of them not wanting to lose all of the free work the slaves provided. They then refused to follow what was written. Another reason as to why the southerners did not fall through with the Emancipation Proclamation was because they they were in the south with their own president Jefferson Davis, and at the time wanted to
The impacts of his death causes the union to get more fired up at southerners for taking the life of their union President. After a death of a U.S President and a successful reconstruction (time period following civil war) this brought a passing of the 13th amendment ending slavery. Along with that it also pass the 14th amendment making African Americans citizens, and the 15th giving voting rights to African American men. The Freedman’s Bureau was created during this time and was created to help millions of poor southern whites and blacks. The biggest success in reconstruction were the