1. Discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and show its political use and function

2.  Election of 1860  Formal break up of the Democratic Party  Republican victory  Upper South  Virginia  Arkansas  North Carolina  Tennessee  Lower South  South Carolina  Georgia  Florida  Alabama  Mississippi  Louisiana  Texas

3.  Lincoln's Letter: As to the policy I ‘seem to be pursuing,’ as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored the nearer the Union will be ‘the Union as it was.’ If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

4.  1. Lincoln regarded the war as a test for the concept of democracy and the legality of the Constitution  2. “Compensated Emancipation”  The states must themselves emancipate  Slave owners must be paid  Federal government must assume part of financial burden  Emancipation must be gradual  Free black must be shipped out of country

5.  Problems in 1862  1. North was losing the war and the war was longer than expected  2. England and France wanted to see the USA weak  3. Lincoln’s failure to make slavery the key issue regarding the war  Timing  Battle of Antietam Sept. 22, 1862  England and France critique of slavery

6.  The E.P. freed no slaves since it only applied to areas of non-Union control and except the four loyal slave states Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri,