One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was:?

Question

One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was:
a. the end of Slavery.
b. the end of Slavery in the South.
c. the war became officially a war against Slavery.
d. there was now more to bargain for if the South wished to rejoin the Union.

Thank you!

Answer 1

I have to agree that NONE of these answers is really accurate. (C) is the "best answer" and so I gather it is "supposed to be" the correct answer, but put that way it is misleading. Even for Lincoln, it was STILL a war whose goal was preserve the Union, just no longer "as it was" (that is, with slavery left in tact). The proclamation was a TOOL he used to wage that war, undermining the South's resources, undercutting the ultimate CAUSE of the war (which WAS slavery), etc.

And I must vociferously disagree with dem_dogs, and the many who repeat the mantra "the proclamation freed no one". That is utter nonsense! In fact, it IMMEDIATELY declared the freedom of those slaves who had escaped assuring that they would NOT be returned, it encouraged others to run away (which many did) AND it meant that AS the Union forces took control of any Confederate territory, its slaves were indeed freed.

Remember too that the proclamation did not stand alone -- Lincoln and Congress had already begun other efforts to end slavery both in the border Union states (ALL of which had outlawed it be the war's end!) and nationally, ultimately, by passing the 13th amendment (which Lincoln worked VERY hard to push through). Certainly Lincoln DID want to see slavery end, and said so often, though he insisted it must happen Constitutionally, in this case by his "war powers" and then through the changing of laws and amending the Constitution. (KC is wrong about this --start reading Lincoln's writings from 1858 to the end and this will be clear. His initial hope was that 'containing' the evil of slavery, not allowing it to expand, would cause it to wither and die.)

Thus, understood as the foundation for the other efforts, one might argue that the end of Slavery (A) was in a sense an "effect of the Emancipation Proclamation", but not taken alone.

Here's a much better answer to the question, from Civil War historian Stephen Sears:

"We now know that Lincoln issued his proclamation for a combination of reasons: to clarify the status of the fugitive slaves, to solve the Union's manpower woes, to keep Great Britain out of the conflict, to maim and cripple the Confederacy by destroying its labor force, to remove the very thing that had caused the war, and to break the chains of several million oppressed human beings and right America at last with her own ideals."
http://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=3&subjectID=1

Answer 2

B and C.

B because the Emancipation Proclamation, as has been previously stated herein, only ended slavery in "those states currently in rebellion against the United States." The EP did nothing to abolish slavery in the entire United States; that didn't happen until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in December, 1865.

C because the Union was getting its collective butt kicked so much so that the papers in the North, even the ones that were very anti-Secession, were publicly questioning Lincoln's ability to win the war, and were making the suggestion that maybe it was time to talk to the South about a treaty. Up until that time the "official" reason for the North's conduct of the war was in fact to preserve the Union; once Lincoln realized that public opinion was turning against him, he decided that he needed something to galvanize the Northern people and put them solidly on his side. He chose the abolishment of slavery; after drafting the Proclamation - which nearly all of his advisors told him was a huge mistake and may cost him the election in 1864 - all Lincoln needed was a "significant Union victory" on the battlefield so he could issue the Proclamation. Antietam gave him that victory, although some historians will say that Antietam was more of a draw than a "significant" victory.

Lincoln's stragety worked - the Northern people got solidly behind him, and the "official" reason for the war became to free the slaves.

Answer 3

None of the above.
a. Slavery was not ended until December 6, 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

b. Slavery in the south did not end till December 6, 1865 with the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

c. The war was officially about preserving the union.

d. The south did not wish to rejoin the Union. Anyway if they did there was no need to bargain to rejoin since the north did not want them to secede in the first place.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed no slaves since it only effected those areas not in control of federal troops.

Answer 4

Both B and C. The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in those areas currently in rebellion against the United States. Not in Delaware, Maryland. Kentucky and Missouri.

Thus the war became a war against slavery and it for stalled European involvement because Britain and France were the primer anti-slavery governments in the world. They would be seen as hypocrites if they helped the south.

Answer 5

I would say A because it ended all slavery in the Union but it offically did not end slavery in the sense that there was no way to keep slavery from happening in the south until the Union controlled the reason.

Answer 6

It didn't really do that much. Yes, on paper it freed the slaves but in actuality nothing happened.

Just a little F.Y.I., it was never in Lincoln's original intentions to actually end slavery. He did it because there was no way around it.

Answer 7

I think C. but not sure.

Answer 8

...okay, that's it, I am moving to Canada.