Title: How did the emancipation proclamation change the way people felt about the civil war? - Answers
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The Emancipation Proclamation has faced criticism as a document of little actual impact, because it offered freedom only to slaves "within any state or designated part of a state … in rebellion against the United States"-not to slaves in areas that the Union actually controlled. ( The March 1862 Confiscation Act had freed slaves in rebellious states, though it only described such slaves as "captives of war" who would not be returned to "claimants.") Some have therefore challenged the Proclamation's importance in ending slavery. But in formally tying the Union's war aims to a policy of abolishing slavery, Lincoln dramatically expanded the scope of the conflict. From black soldiers to European statesmen, from Lincoln's political enemies in the North to outraged rebels in the South, observers understood that the war, and the future course of the nation, had undergone a fundamental change. Whether they approved or not, after January 1, 1863, Americans no longer could deny that freedom for African Americans was now a central part of the Union war effort. As issued in September 1862,
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