 Lincoln created the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862  It would come into effect a hundred days later on January 1, 1863

WHAT KIND OF DOCUMENT IS THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION  It was an Executive order meaning no one had to agree with him.  Lincoln used his power as commander and chief of the military and made a military measure.  The Emancipation Proclamation was not a law ending slavery (the thirteenth amendment passed no more slavery), but it was a empowerment and a unsaid document for America to see and think about ending slavery.

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

 The first battle on Union Soil  Near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek  The Confederates called it the battle of Sharpsburg  Known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War  Nearly every one of four soldiers in this battle died  Shattered the illusion of the Civil War being noble  The victory that Lincoln gained, gave him the power to make the Emancipation Proclamation  Made the Union realize that they needed to destroy the South BATTLE OF ANTIETAM

STEPHEN DOUGLAS

DEBATING

STEPHEN DOUGLAS MOUNTING PRESSURE ON LINCOLN  In 1858 Lincoln and Douglas debated all over Illinois for the senate seat.  Lincoln loses but makes a platform for the presidential election that said that he does not want slavery to expand, but he also does not want to stop it  Because Lincoln lost the election for senate, it gave him the will to run for something even bigger  If Lincoln didn’t run, he wouldn’t have had the power to create the Emancipation Proclamation

BORDER STATES

 The border states were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri  The states that stayed with the Union and were right on the border between North and South  They stay with the Union, but they do not agree with emancipation

THE ORIGINAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

LINCOLN IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

LINCOLN’S GOAL  The reason that Lincoln waited until 1863 was because he needed a big victory to get the support of the people  Lincoln is trying to free all the slaves in the South  Taking away all the Confederates work force, which weakened them  Freeing at first 50,000 slaves then 1,000,000

 Though the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans  It changed the view of the war, and made the North have a moral goal  After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops advanced the amount of freedom  the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy  By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom. Reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation

FREDRICK DOUGLASS’S POINT OF VIEW Douglass felt that Lincoln was too slow in realizing that slavery was the central issue in the Civil War. To Douglass, the Emancipation Proclamation seemed weak and timid.

THE END  By: Florence Almeda, Luis De Pablo, Tomas Linquist, and Cole Summerfelt 