What is one effect the emancipation proclamation had on African Americans in the north?

Answer 1

the north had to except states back in the union if they choose to go back so that slaves would still be slaves if i didnt answer your question too ad or you should be smarter and its not my fault

Answer 2

Chiefly and most urgently, it saved it from the threat of British intervention on the side of the Confederates. (Free nations abroad could no longer do this without looking pro-slavery themselves.)

It also licensed Union troops to liberate any slaves they came across in their Southern campaigns. This depleted the Southern workforce, and gave the Northern armies a pool of labour for menial duties around the camps. In due course, more and more of these men were put into uniform and recruited into black regiments.

Apart from this, it did not make much difference. The four slave-states that had remained loyal were allowed to continue practising slavery. Most Northerners were not Abolitionists, and the Proclamation did not encourage any new rush of Abolitionism, as the mid-term elections showed.

Answer 3

One major immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation to African Americans in the North was that they could now fight in the Civil War. After the establishment of the United States Colored Troops, over 200,000 black men of 'suitable condition' served in the Union Army and Navy.

Answer 4

The Emancipation Proclamation's effected the states that only seceded from the Union. Which, would be most of the southern states that disagreed with Lincoln because he was an Abolitionist. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves that seceded from the Union.

Abolitionist- someone who opposed slavery.

Secede- to "drop out" or leave and organization.

Answer 5

The CSA was going to make an alliance with Britain, who disliked the idea of slavery. Lincoln used the Emancipation Proclamation as a way to turn the Civil War from "The Between The States," to a war about slavery.

Answer 6

The South believed that US President Lincoln was attempting to start a slave revolt in the South which would have been damaging and cost many lives both slave and Southern lives. Lincoln was not trying to do that however. His goal was to allow slaves freed when Union troops invading slave states in the Confederacy to migrate North and also to serve in the Union military. ( this was later on )In the North four states were slave states. These were Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware. Slave owners in these states were uncomfortable with Lincoln's proclamation and slaves in these border states were surely confused.

Answer 7

They became eager to join the Union army. Novanet

Answer 8

I would guess that free blacks did not altogether welcome a large influx of newly-liberated slaves, driving down the cost of labour in the low-paid jobs.

Answer 9

It freed the slaves in the south