Antietam and Emancipation

What is Emancipation?

• A slave who left their owner to escape to the North
• a public announcement
• the act of freeing/setting someone or something free

What is a Proclamation?

• A slave who left their owner to escape to the North
• a public announcement
• the act of freeing/setting someone or something free

What is contraband?

• A slave who left their owner to escape to the North
• a public announcement
• the act of freeing/setting someone or something free

What was the Civil War about in the beginning?

• Freeing slaves
• Keeping the country together

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed slaves by making it clear that the North could keep contraband captured during the war
• Freed slaves by making a Constitutional Amendment that outlawed slavery
• Made it clear that any slaves that were captured by the North should be returned to their owners

As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War became about slavery.

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Lincoln did not want African American men to fight in the war.

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African Americans refused to fight in the Civil War.

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Antietam was the first battle the North won in the Civil War.

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The victory at Antietam allowed Lincoln to give the Emancipation Proclamation.

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