The Emancipation Proclamation: The Confederate States Of The United States

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other," said by Abraham Lincoln. In 1860 President Abraham Lincoln swore to keep slavery out of the territories, as a result the states in the south seceded and founded a new nation, the Confederate States of America. The government and most of the northern states refused to recognize the validity of their secession. They feared that the United States was going to drift apart and not be unified. They wanted to preserve the union at any cost. The civil war began …show more content…

The Union army started with 2,128,949 men while the Confederates started with 1,082, 119. The casualties at the end of the war totaled to 620,000 deaths. The Emancipation Proclamation was ratified in January 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to turn the purpose of the war from fighting to preserve the Union to fighting for human freedom. It helped win the war because the free slaves and free blacks were allowed to be recruited in the Union army, and it stopped the South from using the slaves as laborers in the field to support the Confederate army. The Emancipation Proclamation was meant to free slaves in the states that were rebelling. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation freed only a few slaves, it led to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in the Constitution, the abolishment of slavery in all of the United States of America. The purpose of Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation was to free the slaves, unify the United States again, and break the economic foundation of the …show more content…

Before the Battle of Shillong the civil war was being fought to keep the Union together. Lincoln knew it was a bad idea to take sides in the slavery issue because alienating with one side could mean succession from the other. Lincoln tried to not act against slavery, but to an extent it lasted. Lincoln tried to prevent the Southern states from seceding from the union. When the Union and the south clashed together, the civil war broke out, and the South became the Confederate States of America. Lincoln saw the Constitution as the root for sharing power. He saw the Constitution mainly as a form for sharing power inside the republican government. In his eyes the republican government was the only party that was able to protect the freedom of the people. Lincoln viewed the Declaration of Independence as the basis of such a government, and the Constitution as an outline to follow. War could have been avoided if President Lincoln would have done nothing about the South’s plans of succession. Abraham Lincoln based his theories on the founding fathers which led him to believe it was his constitutional responsibility to hold the Union together. President Lincoln wanted to avoid the Union from becoming small, weak confederacies that would start arguing and lead the United States back to the hands of Europe. After the Union’s victory in the civil war, the Confederate State

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