...As the nation came close to approaching it's third year of civil war, president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Shortly after conquering the battle of antietam, the war for the union became a war for freedom. The Emancipation Proclamation was finite in many ways, as it concerned only states that had seceded from the Union, but it managed to liberate the lives of four million slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately end slavery, but it inspired the hearts of several Americans and instilled a hope for change. To the surprise of many, the Proclamation established the admittance of African American men into the Union army. African Americans in the North welcomed the added righteousness...
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...The emancipation proclamation was a big victory in a sense of opposing slavery. Emancipation meant that a certain group was going be set free from legal, social, or political restrictions, which in this time was all African Americans. The emancipation proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863 by the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The document was issued as the United States approached its third year in its Civil war and it declared “That all person held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.” The emancipation proclamation changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons to being free in the pro-slavery areas. The confederates were furious as they heard the news...
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...The Department of State preserved this document with other proclamations in a large volume for many years. The volume containing the Emancipation Proclamation was transmitted in 1936 to the National Archives of the United States from the departement of States². From a legal point of view , the Emancipation Proclamation was a brilliant move because the president is not favoured by the constitution or even give civil liberties to a specific people. Yet, the U.S. president has the right in wartime to defend his people and gives a total protection of the social securtiy of the country. The Emancipation Proclamation was not approved by the congress or even voted , Abraham Lincoln made it under his power as a commander in chief. This was similar...
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...President Abraham Lincoln is seen as a visionary and revolutionary as he transformed the country in his short presence in office. His efforts in the maintaining and winning the war, in favor of the Union, was one of the most important historical moments in the United States as it reformed the social structure and racial hierarchy of the country. The Emancipation Proclamation was a crucial stepping stone for paving the path for freedom and liberty for the once enslaved African Americans of the United States. However, that is not to say that this document was truly the saving grace of African Americans. The main purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to enlist more soldiers in the fight to maintain the forces of the Union. The document serves similarly, if not exactly, as a compromise between the President and the African American people willing to fight for his cause....
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...In September of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, which would take effect January 1, 1863, and free slaves in those states or regions still in rebellion against the Union. If any southern state returned to the Union between September and January, whites in that state theoretically would not lose ownership of their slaves. Despite its limits, free blacks, slaves, and abolitionists across the country hailed it as one of the most important actions on behalf of freedom in the nation's history. The Emancipation Proclamation brought formal recognition that the war was being fought, at least in part, on behalf of black freedom and equality. The enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863 capped...
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...The most important event we studied this year was Abraham Lincoln’s announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation was a military decree that declared all slaves in rebelling territories were free. Lincoln was able to pass the Emancipation Proclamation because it was a military action against an enemy so as Commander in Chief Lincoln did not need Congress to pass the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation following the Union victory at Antietam. This was because Lincoln wanted to declare it on a high note and not while they were losing battles. One of the reasons the Emancipation Proclamation was so effective and important is that it changed the war to a war about morality over...
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...After the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, black soldiers were allowed to enlist in the army. However, black soldiers were not entirely equal to their fellow white counterparts, since they were paid less minimum wage. Gooding then wrote a letter to address this payment issue, in hopes that he and his fellow freed black soldiers may get equal pay. This particular source details a specific “right” given to African American’s after the Emancipation Proclamation was proposed in 1863. While African Americans were given the right to serve the American army they were paid less that the average white soldier. This demonstrates the ongoing prejudice and unequal ideologies towards the African society in America after the Emancipation Proclamation was...
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...The Emancipation Proclamation turned into the result of many months of concept and planning. Lincoln tried to keep away from outright emancipation through rewards to inspire states, particularly the border states, to free the slaves by themselves. Lincoln time and again presented a system of compensated, gradual emancipation and colonization of freed slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation turned into the very last step in what were a series of military and authority’s orders concerning slaves and runaways. Lincoln did no longer enter office with the aim of freeing the slaves, however both blacks and whites advised him to achieve this through their actions. Letters pressing Lincoln to abolish slavery and enlist freed slaves into the Union military...
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...Read MLK's "I Have a Dream" in the appendix of your text and answer the following: 1. Provide 3 examples of metaphors. Explain what two things, situations, etc. are being compared for each example. "This momentous decree came as a beacon light of hope to millions of negro slaves" He is saying that due to the Emancipation Proclamation there is a chance of hope for the millions of Negros who suffered through slavery. "It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity" He is describing the freedom after the many years of slavery. "the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination" He is saying that segregation and discrimination still bound African Americans to inequality to a society that promised equal opportunities" 2. If you were at the Mall in Washington in 1963, how do you imagine you would have felt after hearing this speech? What might you have been inspired to do? View the persuasive speech on ending child abuse in MyCommunicationLab. (student resources on left-Alternative Media-List of persuasive speeches-Mandatory Minimums If I were to hear this speech it would have definitely inspired me to fight 'to strive for the equality of African Americans. He would have moved me through that speech just from the passion and intensity he displayed when giving the speech. 3. How did she create cognitive dissonance? 4. What was her specific purpose? 5. Name and explain three areas for...
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...February 18, 2014 * Abraham Lincoln * Self-made * Elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1834 and served 4 consecutive terms * Won election 1860 * Issues the Emancipation Proclamation * Changes the very nature of war, giving it a completely new objective * Conciliation was no longer an option * Represented a move toward total war * Challenged by the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War * The Federal Home Front * Challenges: * North don’t want to fight * No real cause * Diverse population * Resources to win; find the will to win * Potentially more dangerous secret pro-southern knights of the Golden Circle * Resources: * 20 million people * 110000 manufacturing * 22000 miles of railroad * Politics: * Increasingly polarized with the radical republicans * Particularly challenging to Lincoln – election of 1862 * George McClellan, challenged Lincoln is 1864 election * Social Life * Farming during the war * 1862 – authorized a transcontinental railroad * Westward expansion * Women and children assumed responsibilities * Build organizations to help soldiers’ suffering * Disease can be prevented by basic sanitation * Wartime Life * North’s industrial and economic might became centralized...
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...STUDENT: PLATON OANA MADALINA SA I TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………… p.3 2. THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA……….. p.4 3. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ……………………………………..p.7 "From a genuine abolition point of view, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull and indifferent, but measuring him by the sentiment of his country - a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to discuss - he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined." Frederick Douglass, 1876 source? 1. INTRODUCTION He survived the tragedy and depression to become America's Greatest President. He had the courage to destroy slavery, but he took a Civil War and the loss of 600,000 lives; his beliefs cost him his life, but without him the United States of America would not exist today. Abraham Lincoln, America's model hero, was a man whose courage saved the nation from destruction. His early life was poor and brutal; he was born on the 12th of February 1809 in a one room cabin in rural Kentucky, a frontier state of America. His family were farmers, he was the first of his family to read; Abraham Lincoln was different to from his friends. The young Lincoln was a child of induce curiosity, he loved to hear people, gave well crafted, well delivered speeches. He would often go to places where such speeches were being made; he memorized parts of them and he would...
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...for some sort of action. Throughout the Civil War, and even after, Lincoln was very kind and forgiving to southerners. He kept in mind the greater good and strived for the reunion of the nation, rather than becoming angry toward the South. As he stated in a speech at the Gettysburg military cemetery, Lincoln wanted a “government of the people, by the people, for the people, (that) shall not perish from the earth.” After the Civil War, Lincoln urged the South to put away their weapons, and rejoin the Union. One of Abraham Lincoln’s truly noble and well-known actions was the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. This would proclaim all the slaves in the United States free from slavery. Though this meant little to the South at the time, it means everything today. Any American resident, and hopefully anyone in the world can appreciate Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Without it, our country wouldn’t demonstrate the same sense of freedom and equality it currently does. All people of minorities especially would regard Lincoln’s...
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...Leslie Rogers Pol-201-w2 11/30/2014 Book Review The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Social, Political, Iconographic) Historian James McPherson was known to call the Emancipation Proclamation the second Revolution of the United States. This not only set slaves free but it took a step towards ending the unjustified bondage of man in America. Lincoln may never have known the true impact of his actions or the legacy he left behind but he changed a nation and a world. After reading most of this book and feedback from others would have read much more into the subject I have a different view of the political game that had to be played in order for everything to work out. In the book it takes you step by step into Lincoln’s actions in relation to the civil war being fought. The careful planning and timing of releasing the proclamation at the right moment in the war ensured it be meet with the least resistant’s from the union and have a greater negative effect on the Confederate states. It also had to be timed properly to have the proper effect of redefining the Effort of the war. I believe politics to be a game of strategy and competition of mental endurance. In my opinion Lincoln freed the slaves in order to win the war and to serve as a humanitarian milestone in history. He was once quoted in saying, “and is not either to save or destroy slavery. 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...
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...April 27th, 2014 Political Science American Government Civil Rights Essay On November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln made a speech known as the Gettysburg Address to multiple people to address the public. Lincoln’s comments that day, however, embraced only a brief moment in the cemetery’s dedication. Lincoln attempted to give meaning to the events at Gettysburg, indeed to the Civil War itself, by speaking about the principles for which he believed the Union stood. Lincoln states that our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the intention that all men are created equal. Then on another note goes into stating that we are now in a great Civil War which is testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so devoted, can long tolerate. He wants to make notice that we are not on a great battle-field of that war, because we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as not for war but more for a final resting place; a resting place for those who gave their lives that the nation might live. Lincoln wants people to realize that our fathers have said that we are all men created in equal, which means we should be as a whole. In 1776, the United States was a new country with a different kind of political philosophy. It was known as “The Great Experiment” because it ventured into new ground and no one knew if such a government could survive. Lincoln testes the idea whether the united States were founded on liberty...
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...COURSE: COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS COURSE CODE: BSLA 153 LEVEL: 100 GROUP: ONE LECTURER: D.S.K. OGORDOR OUTLINE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING’S “I HAVE A DREAM” SPEECH 1. Participation in a demonstration for freedom. 2. The Emancipation Proclamation signed a century ago. a) The decree as a sign to end the longsuffering of the Negro. 3. A century later, the Negroes are still being stigmatized. 4. The passing of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence presented Americans with rights and privileges. a) Negroes were prohibited from enjoying these rights and privileges. b) The Negroes insisted on their rights and privileges. 5. A time to end stigmatization. a) a time for blacks and whites to unite b) Negroes will not rest until they get equal rights and freedom as whites. i. They must not adopt negative means in achieving freedom 6. The Negroes should not mistrust all whites since some support their struggle for justice. 7. Staying focused on the quest for justice. a) Satisfaction will be attained when there is justice in every state 8. People who have encountered mistreatments should not give up in their struggle for freedom a) There is an assurance for change 9. A dream for a for a better future a) There will be unity in all parts of the country. b) There will be equal rights and privileges everywhere. c) The faith and hope for freedom. 10. A song of true freedom 11. The reign of...
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