1. Emancipation Proclamation
Issued after Union Victory at Antietam

2. What was it?
Order issued by Lincoln on Jan. 1, declaring slaves in the Confederate states to be free
Broadened the goal of the war
Lincoln won support from abolition groups

3. Strenghts Gave the war a new meaning
Made it a struggle over slavery
Moral reason to fight
Discouraged foreign powers (Europe) from joining the war
Weakened the Confederacy without angering the boarder states
Opened the Union army and navy to African American enlistments
200,000 more troops

4. Weaknesses No slaves were freed No states returned to the Union
Freedom depended on Union Military victories
No states returned to the Union
800,000 slaves in the boarder states and union occupied territories stayed slaves

5. Massachusetts 54th Regiment
1st African American Regiment in the Civil War
Led by Colonel Robert Shaw
1,000 men
Remembered for their Bravery at Fort Wagner
Discrimination in the Army
Lower pay then white troops
Fewer supplies/poor equipment
Risk of enslavement if captured