Araceli Guartazaca Mrs. Tookes Social Studies 4 April 2014 The Benefits of the Emancipation Proclamation On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation; as the country headed toward the third year of the civil war. This proclamation stated: “that all persons held as slaves are, and hence forward shall be free,” however this only applied to the states that were no longer part of the union, leaving slavery untouched in other states. However the Emancipation Proclamation was needed to benefit African Americans. The Emancipation Proclamation was not a perfect proclamation it may have been limited but it did indeed help free slaves. In addition, without it America wouldn’t be what it is today. Therefore, we have an African American president: Barack Obama who is an effective 44th president. He indeed is an effective president because he stands for equality, integrity and civil rights. The president has stood up for gay rights, tried to ensure voting rights for all Americans, and set up Obama care. Barack Obama had stated the following: “This dream of equality and fairness has never come easily—but it has always been sustained by the belief that in America, change is possible. Today, because of that hope, coupled with the hard and painstaking labor of Americans sung and unsung, we live in a moment when the dream of e... ... middle of paper ... ...ssued the Emancipation Proclamation, it had become a war to end slavery. The proclamation also opened doors for African Americans to enter the army. The federal army initially did not officially accept black soldiers, despite them pressuring the army otherwise. It was until the president issued the proclamation when black soldiers began enlisting in the army. Eventually 186,000 black soldiers entered the Union army. Finally in 1865, the Confederate army ended the Civil War with their surrender. Although many people may state that the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free all slaves, I disagree. It did in fact free the slaves that were in the states that rebelled against the Union
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the rebelling territories of the confederacy and authorizing Black enlistment in the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, free Black people in general, , were ready to fight on behalf of the Union, yet they were prevented from doing so. Popular racial stereotypes and discrimination against Blacks in the military contributed to the prevailing myth that Black men did not have the intelligence and bravery necessary to serve their country. By the fall of 1862, however, the lack of White Union enlistment and confederate victories at Antietem forced the U.S. government to reconsider its racist policy. As Congress met in October to address the issue of Black enlistment, various troops of Black volunteers had already been organized, including the First South Carolina and the Kansas Colored Troops. It wasn't until January 26, 1863, however, that secretary of war Edwin Stanton authorized the enlistment of Black troops. As a result, the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer infantry was founded, becoming the first all-Black Union regiment raised in the north.(Emilio 1990)
America has forever long been looked upon as the land of opportunity, yet for just as long struggled with the actual attainment of equal opportunity by all of its citizens. The lines of this inequality have b...
.All persons held as slaves within said designated states, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free.” (Lincoln 1862). In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment was passed which abolished slavery (Thirteenth Amendment 1865). After the Civil War there was a problem of how freed people would survive.
Lincoln declared that “all persons held as slaves” in areas in rebellion “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Not only liberate slaves in the border slave states, but the President has purposely made the proclamation in all places in the South where the slaves were existed. While the Emancipation Proclamation was an important turning point in the war. It transformed the fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom. According the history book “A People and a Nation”, the Emancipation Proclamation was legally an ambiguous document, but as a moral and political document it had great meaning. It was a delicate balancing act because it defined the war as a war against slavery, not the war from northern and southern people, and at the same time, it protected Lincoln’s position with conservatives, and there was no turning
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 during the civil war, as main goal to win the war. Some historians argued that it was based on feelings towards slaves because not only it freed slaves in the South; it was also a huge step for the real abolition of slavery in the United States. While other historians argued that it was a military tactic because it strengthened the Union army, because the emancipated slaves were joining the Union thus providing a larger manpower than the Confederacy . The Emancipation Proclamation emancipated slaves only in the Confederacy and did not apply to the Border-states and the Union states.
On January 1’st 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation was issued stating that all people held as slaves were to be freed.
The Civil War is often thought of as white northerners and southerners fighting over the freedom of African American’s. African American soldiers would fight on both sides of the war. The eventual acceptance of African American’s and their contributions to the Union Army would be pivotal in the Unions success. African Americans were banned from joining the Union Army in the early part of the Civil War. President Lincoln feared that African Americans in the Army would persuade certain states, such as Missouri, to join the Confederacy. Once African American soldiers could join the Union Army they would contribute to almost every major battle of the Civil War. 180,000 African Americans served in the Union Army in 163 different units, and 9,000 served as seamen in the Union Navy.1 President Lincoln stated, “Without the military help of the black freedmen, the war against the South could not have been won.”2
In January 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln officially issued an executive order called the emancipation proclamation. This freed the all slaves that were in rebellion against the federal government. Abraham issued this executive order because he wanted to punish the south for
One of the most important things that President Abraham Lincoln did while in office occurred on January 1st, 1863. On this date Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the country was coming up on its third year of the civil war. The main purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to free slaves in those states that were still in rebellion against the United States of America. This declaration marked the freeing of over 3 million black slaves all over the United States. This Proclamation also redirects the primary focus of the Civil War from preserving the Union to a major fight against slavery. Known as the savior of the Union, President Lincoln actually considered the Emancipation Proclamation to be the most important detail of his legacy. “I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper,” he stated. “If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it." Its obvious that Lincoln put his whole heart into this act to stop slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation was the federal action that ultimately freed the slaves and changed that narrative of the war, and was delivered on January 1, 1863. After nearly two full years of war, Union citizens were getting quite restless. The war was bogged down, and extremely bloody, and as a result both side suffered many causalities. As more and more sons, brothers, fathers, and friends were dying in the battlefield, the general feeling in the Union was to let the Confederacy have its independence. Lincoln recognized the animosity towards fighting the war, and realized he needed to give his countrymen a real reason to fight. Lincoln could see it in his soldiers as well. The North clearly had the military superiority over the Confederacy.
One would expect that social equality would just be the norm in society today. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Three similar stories of how inequality and the hard reality of how America’s society and workforce is ran shows a bigger picture of the problems American’s have trying to make an honest living in today’s world. When someone thinks about the American dream, is this the way they pictured it? Is this what was envisioned for American’s when thinking about what the future held? The three authors in these articles don’t believe so, and they are pretty sure American’s didn’t either. Bob Herbert in his article “Hiding from Reality” probably makes the most honest and correct statement, “We’re in denial about the extent of the rot in the system, and the effort that would be required to turn things around” (564).
Getting the Emancipation Proclamation to be pass was not an easy task. It took a lot of time, not to mention all of the pressure that was put the president Abraham Lincoln. He was certain that slavery was immoral. Even in his early days he stated: “If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard.” Later on, about 19 years before he was elected president he publicly announced that “Slavery and oppression must cease, or American liberty must perish” this just how much he was against the topic, he was called “soft” on occasions which would vex him. After being elected into office for the second time he wrote to a friend that if there was an excuse for slavery then everything should have an excuse to happen, and even though he wanted to abolish slavery he had not done any official function to help.
The Emancipation Proclamation stated that all slaves in the rebelling states were free. The proclamation stated that naval and military authority would recognize their freedom and that they would not hinder them from reaching actual freedom in free states. Slaves in rebelling states were also legally recognized as free even though the confederacy did not see them as free members of society. The proclamation was trying to end the war, save the union, and end slavery in slave states.
An analysis of these two U.S seminal documents shows the similarities and differences involved in these to important issues and orders given by the president. The emancipation proclamation was an executive order issued by President Lincoln in 1863 it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people. They carefully framed the conflict as concerning the preservation of the Union rather than the abolition of slavery. He knew nobody would accept this offer northerners or slave boarders would. On September 22nd soon after the Union victory at Antietam, he issued an emancipation proclamation declaring that as of January 1st 1863 all slaves in the rebellious states "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free" although the
The Emancipation Proclamation not only freed slaves but also served as a Union war strategy. The emancipation of slaves in southern “states” caused unsettlement between slaves and their owners. Plantations were heavily impacted because as slaves left to find their freedom, production of crops decreased due to the lack of labor. This affected food crops, cotton, and other resources. Just a little while after the Proclamation was issued, African American recruitment began. This boosted the number of Union troops and gave them another advantage. In a way, the Union owes their victory of the war to the Emancipation Proclamation.