When did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
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The focus is on the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure for ending the war. Early in the war, Lincoln moved cautiously on the issue of slavery. However, he changed his policy after the first year of fighting. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the proclamation, promising freedom to all slaves in the Confederate States that did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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My first thought was Nero, good choice. As for not listening to the facts, I'm really not sure what our conservative friends are referring to. People that refer to Abraham Lincoln "starting" the Civil War need to get their facts straight. Lincoln's goal in the Civil War was to keep the Union strong and together. The war was "started" by the Confederacy with the bombing of Fort Sumpter.
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He is most well known for his emancipation proclamation.... which is the official fancy way of saying "declaration of freedom" for the black people back in the 1860's\n\nThis was the major reason the civil war was fought - because the south wanted thier way of life to be totally undisturbed, while Lincoln was willing to disturb half a country to be able to free a whole race of people. \n\nEven after Lincoln, it took 100 years for racial discrimination to be totally out lawed in this country (with the civil rights movment and desegregation of schools, public places etc.) ... so if Lincoln didn't do it when he did it ... we would very easily still be living in a world of legal racism.\n\nThis was only one of his acheivments but is the one he is most accredited for among many others
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1865- Lincoln shot\n1852- Harriet Beecher published Uncle Tom's Cabin\n1868- fourteenth amendment radified, nationalized citizenship.\n1873- Slaughterhouse case, a distinction between national and state citizenship was drawn.\n1776- first state constitution of Virginia, George Mason declared general warrants were oppressive and should not be granted.\n1787, (testing 1776) the house of Benjamin Frisbee was searched for stolen pork. The Superior Court ruled the search unconstitutional.\n1914- Weeks vs. United States- Weeks was arrested without a warrant for attempting to conduct a lottery by mail.The Supreme Court ruled in his favor, stating the arrest and search were unlawful.\n1743-First town meeting held in America at Boston's Faneuil Hall.\n1913-direct election of senatorsadopted with the 17th amendment.\n1916-Woodrow Wilson sent soldiers into Mexico after Poncho Villa, the bandit.
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Lincoln was elected  the 16th President on November 6, 1860, defeating Douglas, John Bell, and John C. Breckinridge.
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He was born on February 12th, 1809.\nHe was President from 1861- 1865\nOn March 4, 1861, Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States\nThis means he was 52 years old, when he became President
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Lincoln took office in March of 1861. Back then , the new President took office in March of the year following the elections. Now it's January. \n  But even before he took office, South Carolina called a convention and delegates voted to secede from the Union. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed. Then eventually also Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America.\n  At a convention of the CSA the next month, they elected Jefferson Davis their President and went on to establish a loose confederation of states. Notably, they added to their laws that Slavery would be legal in all of these States.
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For the text book answer it is 1861 to 1865.  However All the Southerners know that Reconstruction is still in place and still being held against us.\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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I know it was Abraham Lincoln, but I don't know the time frame.
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Abraham Lincoln created the position of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1862, when an income tax was enacted to pay for the Civil War.
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may 29,1790\n\n\n~thanx for the points~
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abolition\n\nslavery was abolished in america, formally, in 1863 with lincoln's emancipation proclamation.\n\nslaves were not actually freed, however, until the north beat the south in the civil war.  even after that, texas still had many slaves until june of 1865 - the day they were freed is celebrated as "juneteenth."
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Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States, and the first from the Republican Party, on March 4th, 1861. He was assasinated shortly after being re-elected to a second term and died on April 15, 1865 from a gunshot wound to the head inflicted by John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theatre in Washington D.C
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Are you sure you're understanding what an 'abolitionist' and the 'emancipation proclamation' is/are?\n\nThere aren't any that I know of.  An 'abolitionist' was a person or group that was opposed to slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves. I'm sure the two are alway mutually exclusive and one doesn't always indicate the other as an abolitionist could have had a problem with details of the Emancipation Proclamation.  But as to a specific individual, I don't recall ever hearing of one
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It was Abraham Lincoln's description of the Union of the United States of America.
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President Ulysses S. Grant declared it a legal holiday in 1870
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Abraham Lincoln, "Second Inaugural Address," 4 March 1865\n\n\nFellow-Countrymen:\n\nAt this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.\n\nOn the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.\n\nOne-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."\n\nWith malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting