Answer:
Free slaves in confederate states.
Explanation:
The Emancipation Proclamation is the proclamation issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in those territories still in rebellion against the Union.
The Presidential Executive Order known as the Liberation Proclamation is renowned for being the first widespread emancipation of Slaves in the Country, despite the fact that its overall effects were not fully realized. However, it did not immediately start to work.
Slavery was lawful in the South prior to the war, hence it was not possible to emancipate slaves there by executive order. However, when they opened fire on the U.S. Army while seeking to secede from the Union, the majority of the South willingly surrendered their Statehood and, thus, the authority of their State laws. Lincoln perceived an open window of opportunity to address slavery and went on to do so.
Although there was no longer a State Government in place, the territory that the Southern States had been inhabiting remained under the regular legal purview of the Federal Government.
Which meant that the land's legal standing changed to that of an American Territory, where only Federal Law was applicable.
Which implied that, by default, a President's Executive Order was paramount.
However, the EO's reason was to hinder the Confederate war effort, which depended largely on slave labor to deliver war supplies, build trenches, and other tasks that would be difficult if the slaves quit what they were working on and fled. On the other hand, unless the U.S. Army had gained control of disputed areas, giving the slaves freedom of action, the slaves couldn't really make a dash for it. Lincoln limited the legal applicability of the EP to Southern territory that the Army had retaken. Battle after battle
Naturally, the South eventually capitulated, and the Army took over rule over the whole region. Which meant that ALL of the millions of slaves in the Confederate South had been emancipated by the EP.
But a significant loose end existed. Four of the slave states in the South that bordered the North refused to engage in the official treason of "levying war against the USA" and continued to support the nation. These States' lawful State Law continued to permit slavery throughout the war, and as they never staged a revolt, the U.S. Army had no motive to seize control of those States.
The 13th Amendment, however, was quickly proposed and enacted to liberate the slaves in those four States and to replace the EP's power in the other Southern States with one that was far greater. Since the State Governments in the South would have obstructed the Amendment, this was done as soon as possible.
Lincoln seized a little window of opportunity that presented itself.
<h3>What were the reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?</h3>
Contrary to common opinion, the North's endeavor to free Southern slaves did not trigger the outbreak of the Civil War. It was over the South's assertion that every state had the right to complete autonomy over its system of government. Even then, in the third year of the war, the Emancipation Proclamation was not even first presented. The Emancipation Proclamation provided the Union forces and the North a morale boost because it made the Civil War more than just a political conflict; it turned it into a conflict motivated by moral principles. The Civil War was, to put it mildly, tremendously unpopular.
Thank you,
Eddie
