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What result did Lincoln want to encourage with the Emancipation Proclamation?

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people seeing slavery as moral
legislators compromising more with enemies
people turning out to vote in midterm elections
slaves being free to join the Union army

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The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t actually free all of the slaves. Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didn’t apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which were loyal to the Union.

The Emancipation Proclamation did more than lift the war to the level of a crusade for human freedom. It brought some substantial practical results, because it allowed the Union to recruit black soldiers. To this invitation to join the army the blacks responded in considerable numbers, nearly 180,000

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