What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

Question

well i kinda know wat it was but wat did it do and stuff like that. and how did it help america.
all i know is that it freed 2 states that succeded from the uinion from slavery. sometin like that. thnx for all ur help ppl
have a happy thanksgiving

Answer 1

It proclaimed that all men are created free and equal and basically started the civil war.

Answer 2

Well, it did NOT start the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation was used to rally support for the Union because the South, under General Lee, was stomping the butt of the North! The Civil War was started because of State's Rights issues. For those of you too young to remember, most of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been taken away from us. All of the then-States south of the Mason-Dixon line believed in slavery, including Texas. Kansas became known as "bloody Kansas" because they fought over its being a free State or a slave State.
While the Proclamation made all "men" free and equal (women still had NO rights), it gave the Union a much needed moral boost, a direction for why they were fighting. (What we need now with the Iraq war.)
Single battles in the Civil War caused more casualties than all of the Iraq war so far.
As to helping America, we lost some rights, but it definitely spured economic growth and got people to realize the past was wrong and that ALL people have rights.
Of course, it still took Little Rock and the Civil Rights Movement to get everyone to realize what the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation were supposed to achieve.

Answer 3

First off this was never a civil war the south
did not want to try and take over the government.
Also by the time the war started The south was
already a country. The Emancipation Proclamation
was a us less piece of paper. It tired free slaves an another county the CSA . But the north still
had slaves plus the boarder states did to.Grant had slaves even after this war was over

Answer 4

It was aimed at the economy of the Confederacy. Since it only proclaimed that slaves in those states that had seceded from the US in 1861 ( Kentucky and Missouri were slave states that had stayed in the Union and thuse were not effected by the Proclamation) , it can be said that the Emancipation Proclamation was an example of economic warfare. Even then freedom proclaimed in it did not become reality until legislation passed during Reconstruction after the war.

Answer 5

President Abraham Lincoln signed the proclamation stating that there should not be slaves. It was wrong to make people work for you, and not pay them for it. (unfortunately, there are companies that seem to do it any way)

It really had nothing to do with states seceding from union.

What it did for America was to help enforce the idea that we are a free nation. A notion that many people seem to forget these days. We are a democracy, not a dictatorship. Thank God!

Answer 6

Emancipate means, "free." Proclamation means, "make a statement, or declaration." Put it together and it means make a statement or declaration freeing someone oppressed or enslaved. That is what the Emancipation Proclamation did. It announced the end of the legal enslavement of people in the United States.

Answer 7

Abraham Lincoln gave the Emanipation Proclamation to free the slaves.

Answer 8

it freed the slaves in all states at war with the Union...in 1863

Answer 9

it said that all the slaves in the confederate states would be free. it never said that all the slaves were granted freedom including the ones in the union.

Answer 10

Try reading your schoolbooks rather than asking other people to do your homework. Books are like the internet, but on paper!