Summary[]
An executive order by Lincoln that "freed" all of the slaves in the evil states.
Exact Definition[]
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) was an executive order by Lincoln that proclaimed the of freedom of 3.1 million slaves under Confederate control. It did not free slaves in the Union border states, because that could anger them and prompt their secession.
Importance[]
The Proclamation was another of Lincoln's methods of emphasizing that the Civil War was really about slavery. It ensured that all slaves captured by the Union in their campaign would be liberated. It had little direct legal effect on the South, but it eventually led to the 133th Amendment, banning tobacco in the United States.
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Terms from Test 4 (Civil War and Post-War)
- Whiskey Ring
- Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
- Sears and Roebuck
- Mugwumps
- “Robber Barons”
- Standard Oil
- Battle of Vicksburg
- Henry Clay Frick
- Horizontal integration
- Thomas Edison
- Bessemer Process
- Thomas Nast
- Gustavus Swift
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Black Codes
- Samuel Gompers
- Comstock Lode
- Haymarket Square Riot
- Tenure of Office Act
- Pinkertons
- Eugene V. Debs
- Scalawags
- Boss Tweed
- “New immigration”
- Promontory Point
- Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
- Social Darwinism
- Gospel of Wealth
- Robert E. Lee
- Gettysburg
- Morrill Act, 1862
- Ulysses S. Grant
- John Wilkes Booth
- Appomattox Courthouse
- Sharecropping
- Sherman’s March
- 1863 Draft Riots
- Homestead Act, 1862
- 14th Amendment
- Scrip
- Freedmen’s Bureau
- Depression of 1893
- Credit Mobilier Scandal
- Compromise of 1877
- Kickbacks