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The Emancipation Proclamation accomplished all of the following except

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Oh All right A pushers one ofthree Here Here's the

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key document that we're sourcing the Emancipation Proclamation eighteen sixty

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three will just skim it for you for no charge

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that on the present generation Lord of Wei all persons

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like feelings Anything apart with savoring a hint before there

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were over three that they're coming and and I further

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clapping and personal little going to Jinan the vessel All

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right Well the Emancipation Proclamation accomplished all of the following

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except what The Emancipation Proclamation didn't truly abolished slavery While

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many northerners called for the complete abolition slavery President Lincoln

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wanted to keep the border states content and try to

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talk the Confederate states into rejoining the union As the

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catastrophic and bloody war went on people began to question

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Lincoln's slow and steady strategy Northerners noticed that slavery was

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helping the Confederate states in the war because while the

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Southern economy kept on going thanks to the slaves cotton

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pickin work and all the other stuff they did in

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the agrarian economy there as tensions rose Lincoln enacted the

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Emancipation Proclamation on January first eighteen sixty three It determined

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that all people whereof shall then be in rebellion against

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the United States shall be then thence forward and forever

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free However this only meant that slaves in states still

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hostile to the union were free as faras These states

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were concerned Lincoln didn't have any authority over them Yes

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so minor detail The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves living

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in the Confederate states of America CB there But slavery

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wasn't officially abolished until the passage of the thirteenth Amendment

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in eighteen sixty five The Emancipation Proclamation worked both as

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a war and an economic strategy against the South So

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get rid of sea there Indy After the proclamation was

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issued well a lot of the free Southern slaves fled

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to the union and joined its army while freeing the

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slaves in the Confederate states also ensured that Britain and

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France wouldn't help the South Instead the European countries applauded

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Lincoln's move because they were against slavery anyway Economically speaking

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the Confederate states economy simply could not function without the

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slaves it depended on No slaves meant the Southern economy

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would collapse and well guess what collapse it did There

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were all these Confederate dollars that now make nice bonfire

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Anyway Right answer Here is a Emancipation Proclamation did not 00:02:28.258 --> [endTime] in fact fully abolished slavery

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