Emancipation Proclamation

After the Emancipation Proclamation...

• African-Americans fled to Canada
• the purpose of the Civil War changed
• the Confederate Army executed slaves by the dozens
• slaves would be freed from the border states

Lincoln wanted until a Union victory at _____________ to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Gettysburg
• Bull Run
• Antietam
• Fort Sumter

Lincoln came to believe the only way he could save the Union is if he did what?

• Put the Irish in Prison
• Let the South win the war
• Emancipate the Slaves
• Ask France to fight for the Union

According to the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves would only be set free in what parts of the country?

• only the states in rebellion
• in the four loyal slave states
• lands of the Louisiana Purchase
• the North

Part of the reason Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation was he thought...

• Northerners would want to help the slaves in the south
• Lincoln just wanted to set them free
• it would hurt the southern war effort
• Britain would ally with the Union

After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War was not only about restoring the Union together but  ____________.

• Ending Southern Control in Kentucky
• ending slavery
• ending northern abuse towards the South
• maintaining slavery

The Emancipation Proclamation kept who from aiding the Confederacy?

• Britain
• Spain
• Latin America
• Mexico

Total emancipation was achieved by the...

• 13th amendment
• 14th amendment
• 15th amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation

The _________ called for all Confederate slaves to be freed.

• Mayflower Compact
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Bill of Rights
• Constituion

Even though these states had slavery, they did not join the Confederate states.

• western states
• Union
• border states
• southern states