The Emancipation Proclamation http://pinal.arizonagop.net/emancipation-proclamation/ http://www.blackpast.org/about/board-of-directors By, Julissa and Tiana

Vocabulary and Key terms and people Restore: to bring back to a normal state; to put back; to reestablish. Sustain: to keep; to endure; to supply with food; to support as just Emancipate: or free Horace Greeley: news paper publisher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Greeley

Emancipating the Enslaved: Lincoln changed his mind -“You overestimate the number in the country who hold such view’s ,” he told one abolitionist . -Lincoln said his goal was to restore the union, even if that meant letting slaver continue. -He stated “if I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it…. What I do about slavery… I do because I believe it helps to save the union.” -Lincoln began to change his mind. He realized how important slavery was to the South’s war effort. http://bonjukianpatten.com/2014/01/13 http://govbooktalk.gpo.gov/category/legislative-branch

A Famous Proclamation September 22,1862 Lincoln met again with his cabinet and issued a preliminary proclamation. January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation. It freed enslaved people only in areas that were fighting the union. The Proclamation didn’t apply to parts of the South, that was already under union control. Didn’t free people in bored states. http://alacarte.library.csuci.edu/subject-guide/65-Lincoln-The-Constitution-and-the-Civil-War?tab=339

Effects of the Proclamation - Freed few slaves at first, but did have an important effect. The Proclamation changed the Civil War into a struggle of freedom. No longer a fight to save the nation, it was now also a fight to end slavery. Dashed any hops that Britain would recognized the South’s independence. Britain would not help a government, fight to keep people enslaved. In both North and South, Lincoln proclamation united African American in support of the War. http://www.socialistalternative.org/2013/08/27/civil-war-150-years-emancipation-proclamation/

African Americans Help the Union - Civil War began African American's were not permitted to join the union army. -Northern were able to appeal the chance to join, but African American's couldn’t. After the Emancipation Proclamation many African Americans were able to join and serve. http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/emancipation-150/10-facts.html http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/emancipation.html

Volunteering for Service http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/civil_war_series/2/sec5.htm Volunteering for Service -189,000 African Americans served in the union army or navy. -More than half were former slaves who had escaped or been freed by the fighting. -If captured most were returned to slavery and some were killed. -Black and white were sailors served together on warships. -Blacks earned less pay than white. -African American troops took part in about 40 major battles and 100s of minor ones. -The most famous was the attack on fort Wagner in South Calorlina by 54th Massachusetts Infantry on July 18, 1863 -More than half of its soldiers were casualties. -Free northern and emancipated southern African Americans often worked for union armies as cooks, wagon drivers, hospital aides. http://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline/Projects/Rogers/

Resisting slavery - In the south, many enslaved African Americans did what they could to hurt the confederate war effort. Some provided military and other kinds of information to union armies. Enslaved people had always quietly resisted slavery by deliberately working slowly or damaging equipment.