The Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War
Thesis
Before Civil War
Views on Slavery
Southern Response to Lincoln's Election
Issuance of E.P.
Civil War Initially Not About Slavery
Civil War Gradually About Slavery
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Commander In Chief Powers
Foreign Support
Issuing the E.P.
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Position of Strength
Contents of E.P.
Impact of E.P.
Increased the Intensity of War
Freed Slaves
Process Paper
Annotated Bibliography
Before Civil War
Before the Civil War, the Union and the Confederates were not one unified nation, as the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860 began a chain of events that turned into the Civil War in April 1861.
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