Emancipation and Effects

Question 1

1862 - Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

• president Lincoln (wrote it)
• southern slaves are declared free
• had no legal impact on the South at the time (war is still going on)
• may have lengthened the war - due to making the South fight to the end
• told South that the slaves would be free at the end of the war
• victory at Antietam

Question 2

thousands flee north

Answer 2

• slaves now know the Union wants slaves to be free
• Slaves who want freedom now flee to the North
• Some slaves fear what the South will do in response

Question 3

slave solders

Answer 3

• 180,000 slaves/free-men will serve the Union Army

- 54th Massachusetts is formed - first black regiment

Question 4

home guards in the south

Answer 4

• slave owners make sure slaves will not leave

- security guards will be posted to stop any slave trying to escape

Question 5

13th amendment

Answer 5

• 1865 - after the war comes to an end

- law had to be passed to officially free the slaves

Question 6

remember this…

Answer 6

the emancipation proclamation was meant to serve as a moral boost for the northern army. they now knew what they were fighting for - to free enslaved people in the south

Question 7

the emancipation proclamation was passed in 1862 by ___________

Answer 7

congress

Question 8

many argue that emancipation proclamation

Answer 8

lengthened the war

Question 9

___________ accounted for 10% of the union army by war’s end

Answer 9

african americans