1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Natasha_Volkova [10]
3 years ago
12

What was one reason why the Emancipation Proclamation was able to benefit the North's cause?

History
1 answer:
Vitek1552 [10]3 years ago
6 0

One big reason:  It gave the North an additional, powerful reason to fight and win the war.

Additional reasons:  It gave the Union Army another source of soldiers, and it kept foreign powers from allying with the Confederacy.

<u>Historical context/details</u>:

President Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation as an executive order on January 1, 1863. The executive order declared freedom for slaves in  ten Confederate states in rebellion against the Union.  It also allowed that freed slaves could join the Union Army to fight for the cause of reuniting the nation and ending slavery.  As summarized by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, "The Proclamation broadened the goals of the Union war effort; it made the eradication of slavery into an explicit Union goal, in addition to the reuniting of the country."

While Lincoln personally was strongly against slavery, he had to tread carefully in his role as president and commander-in-chief.  The Emancipation Proclamation was carefully worded in order to retain the support of four border slave states, which remained in the Union though they were states that permitted slavery, were  Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky.   Lincoln wanted to keep those states loyal to the Union cause.

The Emancipation Proclamation was also a way of blocking foreign support for the Confederate cause.  According to the American Battlefield Trust, "Britain and France had considered supporting the Confederacy in order to expand their influence in the Western Hemisphere. However, many Europeans were against slavery."  Britain had abolished slavery in its territories in 1833.  France had put a final end to slavery in its territories in 1848.  So when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, it also served as a foreign policy action to keep European powers out of the US Civil War, according to Steve Jones, professor of history at Southwestern Adventist University.

You might be interested in
They don't have a literature thing but
mr_godi [17]

Answer:

1.The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.

Explanation:

2. sorry

7 0
3 years ago
Which act by FDR greatly angered Congress and the public?
natulia [17]
The answer is A., because there may only be 9 justices for a REASON, so that there's a fair amount of voices and judgements to close a case, and there wouldn't be a situation where half of the supreme justices agree and the other half doesn't. c:
6 0
3 years ago
What was Galileo Galilei known for
Natasha2012 [34]
Hope you like this Google answer.

4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Which religion did Spain hope to spread in its American colonies?
motikmotik
Spain hoped to spread Catholicism to the American colonies.
7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
The article cites two arguments about the "economic miracles"
8090 [49]

Answer:

The German and the Japanese economic history of the post war years is considered to be an "economic miracle" for two main reasons:

  • Both countries were devastated after the World War II. Japan and Germany were losing countries, and had to surrender incoditionally to the allies (United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Britain), after having their cities, countryside, and infraestructure bombed and destroyed. Some cities had to be rebuilt almost from scratch, and this obviously made it harder to propser economically.
  • The two countries quickly recovered and began to grow economically at an spectacular pace. For example, by the 1960s, only 15 years after the end of the war, Japan was growing at a pace of over 10% per year, and Germany was growing almost as much. This enormous economic growth only a few years after having been devastated, helped Germany and Japan become developed nations in only two decades.

3 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • Which event marked the start of the scramble for Africa
    6·2 answers
  • What was the main point of 9/11? why did it happen?
    5·2 answers
  • Which helps enable an oligopoly to form within a market?
    6·2 answers
  • What particular invention was greek inventor archimedes for?
    8·2 answers
  • How old was Frederick Douglass when he wrote this narrative?
    10·1 answer
  • What was the great compromise and how did it help create the constitution?
    15·1 answer
  • Which of these acts of terrorism happened during the Munich olympics in 1972, but were not enough to end the olympics? Group of
    7·2 answers
  • Who became rivals even though they both were communists?
    9·1 answer
  • Analyzing Why did Washington's efforts to gain the peaceful cooperation
    9·1 answer
  • ROMAN NUMERALS
    7·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!