as one seamless document. Please respond to at least three other classmates for the following questions: Q. Express what you feel is the true motivation behind the Emancipation Proclamation as it was issued on January 1‚ 1863. A. Once again‚ to better understand the September release of the Emancipation Proclamation‚ one needs to go back a few months. The war was dragging on‚ heading deeper into its second year. Although the North had seen its fair share of victories‚ they suffered considerable
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Well first‚ the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves that were in the territory that was in rebellion against the government were free. And‚ of course‚ they didn’t free their slaves. But it did not apply to any of the Union’s territory. Slavery was officially abolished on December 18‚ 1865 when the 13th Amendment was added to the Constitution. As for the discrimination‚ I do still think it exists today. But the thing is‚ it is bad when
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Abraham Lincoln gave the speech called the “Emancipation Proclamation” which states “All persons held as slaves… shall be then‚ thenceforward‚ and forever free” This means that the slaves were going to be freed unless states would rebel. He promised it would have a positive outcome to giving the slaves their freedom. In conclusion‚ at first everything was segregated and everyone was racist. When Abraham Lincoln gave addressed the Emancipation Proclamation he did what no president before him did he
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currently and what needs to be changed. The speakers also talk about ways to change the negative things that are going on. Mr. King’s speech is about the fight for justice and equality. In Mr. King’s speech he talks about the signing of the emancipation proclamation 100 years ago and how the Negro is still not free. In his speech Dr. King repeats the phrase “100 years later” to list the difficulties of the Negro. In King’s speech he also talks about how we should change and how we should keep moving
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was not taken‚ and thats when the first shot was fired. April 12‚ 1861 the Civil War had begun. On January 27th‚ 1862 Lincoln allowed the Union to launch unified aggressive action against the Confederacy. January 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in the states that were still in rebellion on January 1st 1863. The Gettysburg Battlefield was dedicated as a national cemetery‚ this was a huge war. Over 54 thousand soldiers were killed. The south wasn’t strong enough
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The contribution Black Confederates made to the South is the real reason for the crafting of the Emancipation Proclamation. All-America should know about the Confederacy’s integrated fighting Army. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On January 1‚ 1862‚ Confederate general Stonewall Jackson led his men from Winchester to Bath in trying to disturb traffic on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Jackson’s men reached the
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ultimately the Civil War was to “preserve the Union‚ not to abolish slavery‚” we all know that the main reason was slavery (Page 768 of our assigned readings). If President Lincoln believed that slavery was not the issue‚ why did he introduce the Emancipation Proclamation? Even the men of the Union army were glad to hear that President
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Memorial in Washington before a sea of people‚ when he introduced himself with the first sentences of his "dream" speech as a debt collector of the black race: "A hundred years ago‚ a great American‚ in whose symbolic shadow we stand‚ the Emancipation Proclamation‚ "King began. "This momentous decree came as a ray of hope for millions of Negro slaves ... It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. In a way‚ we come to our nation’s capital to cash a check." The pastor was gracious
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Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is still‚ to date‚ one of the most debated‚ revolutionary acts of the any of the Presidents of the United States. Through this document Lincoln took responsibility upon himself for the freedom of four million slaves throughout the divided country he presided over and forever changed the scene of what could be a very different American culture than that of which we live in presently today. After reading Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery
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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
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