Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Confederacy was looking for support from England and France. Both of those countries were opposed to slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln's way of changing the Civil War from a battle for states rights (which he had previously endorsed) and making it about slavery. AT that time the United States Government was the biggest slave holder in the world because slaves were not being freed but were taken as "contraband" and help as slaves in Maryland prior to that time. The Proclamation made the Republican Party so angry (because they wanted to take over southern plantations, slaves and all) the decided not to nominate Lincoln for reelection. But the ploy worked and England and France backed away from the Confederacy and as luck would have it Grant's success in the war made Lincoln unbeatable. So the man who was going to be the Republican candidate (McClellan) never ran. Bad feelings about the proclamation are what caused the reconstruction/carpet bag problems and the impeachment of President Johnston who carried out Lincoln's policies after he was murdered.
Question about Abraham lincoln and Emancipation Proclamation?
Why do you think Lincoln wanted to establish the Emancipation Proclamation, but do so with the idea of shipping black people out of the country now that their services were not needed as much? I read in my book that he established the E.P. to free slaves, but I don't know about the other question? "with the idea of shipping black people out of the country now that their services were not needed as much" THANK YOU!!
Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
First, don’t focus on Lincoln as a personality. He was elected by a new strongly antislavery party, and if anything was chosen as a relatively moderate compromiser who might be able to retain border state support.Second, the measures towards slavery changed steadily as the war progressed and Kentucky was no longer asserting neutrality. In July 1861, Congress resolved that the war aim was to preserve the Union and not to abolish slavery; by December 1861, Congress already repealed it.Confiscation Acts in 1861 and 1862 took progressively harder measures against rebel slaveowners’ property rights. Preliminary and then Final Emancipation Proclamations then legally freed rebels’ slaves. These both aided the war effort and moved towards the original Republican goal of an eventual end to slavery as that became possible.
Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation..?
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races." How can this 1858 statement of Abraham Lincoln be reconciled with his 1862 Emancipation ProclamatIon? i'm in apushh and i'm going to fail =/ any idea's? i'm lost!
Question on Lincoln and the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation?
In 1858, the slavery issue was a huge hot-button issue; kind of like abortion and stem-cell research are for us today. The reason I bring those up is because the question is not one of morality, but of Presidential powers. Lincoln did not believe that he had the constitutional authority to act in the way the Radical Republicans wanted. That should give you an idea of how extreme the thinking was in 1858 - the abolitionists were considered the "Radical Republicans" a fringe element, like those we call the Religious Right". Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was a political and military strategic maneuver; you should realize that the proclamation was issued as an Executive Order as Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces, not as an act of Congress or an amendment. One of his greatest abilities was his ability to listen to all sides of an argument, to surround himself with those who opposed him and understand their points of view. Lincoln grew tremendously on the issue of slavery during his presidency; many of his statements were political in nature, but his understanding developed over his 4+ years in office.
Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation?
“I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.” How can this 1858 statement of Abraham Lincoln be reconciled with his 1862 Emancipation Proclamation?
How did the opinion of Abraham Lincoln on the Emancipation Proclamation differ from that of Chief Justice Roger Taney?
Likely 180 degrees different. Taney was a Southerner who’s origins affected his judicial rulings long before the war broke out.The Proclamation was based on the recognized international convention that any property useful to the war effort of the enemy could be legitimately seized by a nation’s armed forces.What was done with said property was up the military command which Lincoln was the Commander In Chief.Slaves where critical to the Southern war effort. Their labor freed up white males to fight.That’s why the proclamation excluded the slave states still in the Union. Lincoln recognized he had to constitutional right to seize slaves in states still in the union.Taney essentially disagreed with Lincoln’s war powers existed until a deceleration of war by congress.Lincoln couldn’t ask Congress for one because wars are declared between sovereign nations, and Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy as such.To him, they were rebels mounting an insurrection against the lawful authority of the United States.Taney felt that the Southern States had a right to secede so they couldn’t be in rebellion.
Why did lincoln finally decide to issue the emancipation proclamation?
Because the South had already secceeded from the nation. He needed something to really get under their skin.
After President Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, did he contact each and every confederate state to phase out slavery over a period of time and they all rejected his offer?
Of course not! After signing the EP, there was no such “diplomatic contact” made. It may look that way, however:The Emancipation Proclamation was a military order. It gave to the military governors (commanding Union generals) in each occupied state a command to confiscate all slaves in that state, assuming such state was still in rebelloin as of January 1, 1863.The upshot was that it looked like kind of an “offer”… although, it wasn’t really…In a way, with this Procloamation, Lincoln was effectively saying to the South: Come back into the Union before January 1, 1863, and you will salvage your last chance to keep your slaves…Oherwise, if you still are in rebellion, and IF we continue to occupy southern states, you will have your slaves confiscated. And they will never be returned.A brilliant move on many levels. For one thing, assuming the Union armies could continue to win battles (and it was starting to), it pulled the rug out from under the Confederacy, because with slavery dead and dying, there was less motivation for them to fight on.It was not a “deal” held out to the Confederate States, but in a weird sort of way it was. It said to the South, If you want to keep your slaves, then this is your last chance to come back into the Union. Otherwise, with each new state we occupy, your slaves will be freed forever.But how many Confederate states took that “deal” — to come back peacefuly into the Union?? None of them did, not one. Lincoln knew that the South would probably not capitulate, but in Signing the Proclamation, he would gain the indisputably higher moral ground.