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Question #dcc39

Answer 1

It abolished slavery in the Confederacy

Explanation:

The emancipation proclamation (28th August, 1863) did not abolish slavery in the United States since states that had joined the fight with the Union(Kentucky, Maryland) could keep on practicing slavery. Only the thirteenth amendment in 1865 led to a complete abolition, the former one had only freed slaves in the Confederacy.

Answer 2

One immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was the Civil War became a war for the abolition of slavery.

Explanation:

Before the Emancipation Proclamation the war was more about the preservation of the Union than the abolition of slavery. The south feared that Lincoln would restrict and starve slavery and this fear was one of the reasons for the beginning of the Civil War.

After the Emancipation Proclamation the war was about the complete abolition of slavery. This made it immediately impossible for the European nations to continue to support the Confederacy.
Before the Emancipation Proclamation one of the hopes for becoming an independent nation was that England and France would actively come in on the Confederacy's side. England and France had substantial economic reasons for helping the South.
Making the war being about abolition of slavery made it impossible for England and France to help the south like France had helped the colonies.

The capital of the union was Washington DC surrounded by Maryland, Lincoln was reluctant to alienate Maryland that was a slave state. Also Kentucky was an important border state that was a slave state that supported the Union.

Also Lincoln could declare Slavery illegal in the Confederacy that was in rebellion to the Union by executive action. To outlaw slavery in Kentucky and Maryland would require action in the US congress.

So the immediate result was to change the the focus of the war. No slaves were actually freed. The slaves in Union Slave states were not freed. The slaves in the Confederate States were declared free, but the the Confederate States would not let them be freed.