South Carolina December 20, 1860
Mississippi January 9, 1861
Florida January 10, 1861
Alabama January 11, 1861
Georgia January 19, 1861
Louisiana January 26, 1861
Texas February 1, 1861
Virginia April 17, 1861
Arkansas May 6, 1861
North Carolina May 20, 1861
Tennessee June 8, 1861
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The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved individuals in Confederate states were to be set free.
States still in rebellion against the United States.
The Emancipation Proclamation was significant because it declared all enslaved people in Confederate states to be free, changing the focus of the Civil War to include the abolition of slavery as a key goal.
No. The Emancipation Proclamation, written by Abraham Lincoln, declared all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states free. This did no good because the confederate states were not in Lincoln's control at the time. This document said nothing about the UNION slaves, though. A couple of the states fighting on Lincoln's side still had slaves, and the emancipation proclamation did not set them free.
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved individuals in Confederate states were to be set free.
States still in rebellion against the United States.
Nothing. It didn't affect them. Only affected the Confederate states.
The Emancipation Proclamation was significant because it declared all enslaved people in Confederate states to be free, changing the focus of the Civil War to include the abolition of slavery as a key goal.
It declared all slaves free in the United States after the civil war it was signed September 1862
No. The Emancipation Proclamation, written by Abraham Lincoln, declared all slaves in the CONFEDERATE states free. This did no good because the confederate states were not in Lincoln's control at the time. This document said nothing about the UNION slaves, though. A couple of the states fighting on Lincoln's side still had slaves, and the emancipation proclamation did not set them free.
The Emancipation Proclamation is credited with freeing the slaves in the United States.
The ones in the four slave-states of the Upper South that had remained loyal to the Union.
Emancipation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in 10 states that were still in rebellion in 1863. It did not, however, take into account slaves that were in bordering Union states. These remaining slaves were freed on the state and federal level.
In the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln declared slavery abolished in the states that had seceded from the United States. Since those states did not acknowledge Lincoln's authority, slavery did not end until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
One of Abraham Lincoln's most famous acts was issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which declared that all slaves in Confederate territory were to be set free. This proclamation played a significant role in the abolishment of slavery in the United States.