The Emancipation Proclamation is very important to the United States because it abolished slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was a executive order, ordered by President Abraham Lincoln, on January 1, 1863 that abolished slavery completely. This executive order changed the topic of the war to freeing slaves and bringing them to the free land. If it wasn't for this executive order, there could possibly still been slavery during their time, and possible today.
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It could result in melting ice caps, causing sea levels to rise.
Slavery started in the colonies because the colonists needed cheap labor to grow the economy quickly by exporting things to England and some parts of Europe.
