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Without use of his war powers no constitutional authority justified his action. The proclamation was criticized as freeing only the slaves in which the union had no power. http://wapedia.mobi/en/Emancipation_Proclamation Due June 8 essay, get organized, presentation Topic:Abraham Lincoln Focus: writing the emancipation proclamation Reason for Choice: I have heard a lot about Abraham Lincoln. What he did, how he brought a nation together, how he was the greatest president, how he freed slaves, but is he really the best president ever? Thesis:The emancipation proclamation truly didn't help all of the slaves, it had a different purpose. There were other reasons for the proclamation besides freeing slaves. What are four various secondary sources you have found before your research?

What are two primary sources you have found to help your research? emancipation proclamation

1The north entered the war not to end slavery, but to keep the country together because of slavery. 2The emancipation proclamation gave the north war advantages, and the south disadvantages. 3All slaves were not free in the south, until after the war. 4He never intended to free the slaves, because he and his cabinet was afraid of what it would do to the country.
 * What four reasons do you have that will back up your point?**

The war was about slavery, however the north's goal was to keep the country together as he says here: “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.” [] “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. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.” Lincoln admits that the emancipation of blacks will only happen because it is of assistance to the Union; slaves are only pawns in the game of politics and warfare he is playing. Lincoln places the freedom of blacks on a low priority compared to his desire to unify the nation, and his words here seem more becoming of a Confederate Army officer than the so-called Great Emancipator. [] Although the war had been about slavery Lincoln treated it as a chance to keep the nation together, this had supposedly changed after the emancipation proclamation. Sources:team of rivals
 * What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it?**
 * What can you conclude from these facts?**

"...The tremendous advantage to be gained if the massive workforce of slaves could be transferred from the confederacy to the union."Team of rivals pg 465 This quote shows Stanton's,a member of his cabinet, thoughts of the emancipation proclamation. Which basically means that with the slaves, the union could win the war. The slaves were doing all of the southerners farming so whites were more available to the south's army. Without the slaves, the confederacy would have a large part of their labor force taken out. Therefore, less enlistments. France and United kingdom did not join the war to help the confederacy, because the proclamation made the war a war against slavery and they already abolished it. They were going to fight with them because the south supplied them with cotton. The emancipation proclamation was used by Lincoln as a major war advantage, so he could keep the Union together. Sources
 * What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it?**
 * What can you conclude from these facts?**

425,000 slaves in border states were not included in the proclamation. "** Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. Johns, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South-Carolina, North-Carolina, and Virginia, (except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth-City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. **" These were the states where all slaves could be free. Mostly they are all of the states under confederate control. The border states were not included. http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/emancipate.htm The emancipation freed thousands of slaves the day it went into affect. Four million slaves were free after the war, when the thirteenth amendment went into effect. The emancipation proclamation was a way to help some slaves, not all of them. Sources
 * What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it?**
 * What can you conclude from these facts?**

The proclamation was a war measure to help the Union win the war not a reason to end slavery. Lincoln didn't know how the border states and the copperhead democrats would react, who later denounced the proclamation and gained seats in the house. "...a measure of great danger...leading to depredation and massacre on one hand and support to the insurrection on the other." Team of rivals.Salmon Chase, was a member of Lincolns cabinet, who said this quote. This quote means that the proclamation would lead to attack and massacre, but it was also supporting open revolt against Lincoln and the government. Throughout Lincolns meeting of the emancipation proclamation Caleb Smith kept quiet, but he opposed it greatly. He had once said "if the proclamation was issued that he would 'resign and go home and attack the administration.'" Team of rivals Seward, a member of Lincolns cabinet, said he considered the document "nothing more than paper without the muscle of the advancing Union Army to enforce them." Team of rivals
 * What is your fourth reason and three to five facts to support it?**

Even though Lincolns cabinet disagreed in the fact of issuing the proclamation, he still refused to listen, which leads me to believe that he knew this document would keep the country together, but also free the slaves, which was an after thought. Sources
 * What can you conclude from these facts?**

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 * Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life?**

Sources Team of rivals by Doris kearns goodwin [] [] [] world book encyclopedia copyright 2008 [] http://wapedia.mobi/en/Emancipation_Proclamation