When war broke out in Europe in September 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that though the US would remain neutral in law, he couldn't "expect every American to stay neutral in thought." Roosevelt himself made substantial efforts to assist nations fighting Nazi Germany, and he intended to lend a helping hand to those countries that lacked the materials they needed to fight the Germans. The United Kingdom, in particular, was in severe need of assistance because it lacked the hard cash needed to pay for military supplies, food, and raw materials from the United States.
The document was the Emancipation Proclamation and was issued on January 1st 1863 hope that helps! :)
Two things that the Radical Republicans insisted be part of their Reconstruction plan was that the military would stay in the South to supervise the transition, and that the newly freed slaves would be offered all the freedoms of whites in the South.
