The Emancipation Proclamation affected the Union's Civil War efforts by allowing the Union to turn its attention away from slave
ry. increasing the number of troops who could join the Union. forcing Southern slaveholders to free enslaved people. forcing Northern African Americans to join the Union army.
It remade Europe after the downfall of French Emperor Napoleon I and tried to restore old boundaries as well as resizing the main powers so they could balance each other and remain at peace.
