25-26 U1: DS 5-2.1

The Emancipation Proclamation was significant because it

• ended slavery throughout the country

• changed the focus of war to slavery

• forced the Confederacy to surrender in Virginia

• ended the Civil War

What were the major consequences of the Civil War?

• recognition of the rights of states to leave the Union and to nullify federal laws.

• the end of slavery and a strengthening of the power of the federal government

• an end to racial discrimination and establishment of social equality throughout the nation 

      

• the abolition of slavery in all Northern states and in all federal territories north of 36’30’

What was the North’s strategy according to the political cartoon above?

• to attack and bring under control certain key Southern cities.

• to disrupt Southern supply lines by controlling the railroads.

• to attack Missouri first and then the rest of the Southern states.

• to suffocate the South by controlling the Mississippi River and the Southern ports.

What was one effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• More African Americans (slave and free) joined the Confederates

• More African Americans joined the Union army

• Many southern soldiers joined the North

• Some of the northern states lost faith in Lincoln