Emancipation Proclamation and its Focus

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What aspect of the Emancipation Proclamation led some to believe it was more focused on protecting the Union than on freeing the slaves?

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It allowed border states to maintain ownership of their slaves.

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Read the excerpt and answer the question. This speech marked a turning point in the Civil War. It gave the Union new hope and cause to continue fighting.

 

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.    —Abraham Lincoln, 1863 

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Gettysburg Address

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What document freed the slaves in the states that were rebelling against the Union? 

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Emancipation Proclamation 

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What impact did President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation have on the course of the Civil War?

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It made the abolition of slavery a primary objective of the war. 

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In which area did the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declare slavery illegal? 

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Confederate States

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Why did the Civil War mark a turning point in United States history?

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It firmly established that the United States was a single country, not a confederation of states.

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What did Lincoln emphasize about the Union in his Second Inaugural Address?

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The importance of maintaining unity in the country

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The Union army was able to continue fighting at Gettysburg even after being driven out of the city because the Union troops

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took a strategic position on elevated ground.

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General Grant won the Battle of Vicksburg by

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besieging the city.

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How did women contribute to the Civil War effort?

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They took on men's jobs and worked as nurses.