Title: What Was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Headings: What Was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What Was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Why Did Abraham Lincoln Sign the Emancipation Proclamation?
Why Did the Emancipation Proclamation Only Free Slaves in Confederate-Occupied Areas:
What Effect Did the Emancipation Proclamation Have?

Content: Historians estimate that as many as 500,000 black people managed to do this. So we might say that these black people freed themselves.” What the Emancipation Proclamation mostly did was change the reasoning behind the war. Although slavery was one of many causes of the Civil War, ending slavery was not the original objective of the war. Preserving the Union and preventing Confederate states from seceding was the main goal of the Civil War. When lawmakers passed the proclamation, it changed everything. Suddenly, the war became a fight for justice and winning it meant freedom for thousands of slaves. This not only raised morale in the Union and strengthened the army, but it also prevented England and France (two anti-slavery countries) from giving military aid to the south. In addition, the proclamation also allowed for the acceptance of black men into the Union army and navy. Ultimately, the Emancipation Proclamation paved the way for the 13th amendment which freed all slaves in the United States and abolished slavery forever.