What effect did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the North?

Question:It placed the North in strong moral position.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on 23 September 1862 by President Lincoln following the Battle of Antietam. In brief, it stated that as if 1 January 1863, all slaves under Confederate control were freed.

What it did not do was end slavery or actually free any slave. The institution of slavery continued in the Border States and in those areas under Union Control. The proclamation applied only to areas "still in rebellion."

The 13th Amendment, ratified on 18 December 1865 actually abolished slavery.

What the proclamation did do was to give the United States the moral advantage in the war. England had taken the lead in outlawing and ending slavery throughout the world. It now was placed in the position of having to chose to support the United States, which had taken action to end slavery, or support an avowed slave state (the Confederacy) No matter how pro-South the British were, they could not openly recognize the Confederate State as it had written the right of slavery into it's constitution.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It placed the North in strong moral position.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on 23 September 1862 by President Lincoln following the Battle of Antietam. In brief, it stated that as if 1 January 1863, all slaves under Confederate control were freed.

What it did not do was end slavery or actually free any slave. The institution of slavery continued in the Border States and in those areas under Union Control. The proclamation applied only to areas "still in rebellion."

The 13th Amendment, ratified on 18 December 1865 actually abolished slavery.

What the proclamation did do was to give the United States the moral advantage in the war. England had taken the lead in outlawing and ending slavery throughout the world. It now was placed in the position of having to chose to support the United States, which had taken action to end slavery, or support an avowed slave state (the Confederacy) No matter how pro-South the British were, they could not openly recognize the Confederate State as it had written the right of slavery into it's constitution.

Depends on what you mean.

It gave the North's pursuit of war with the South a form of legitimacy. It made it seem like the real point of the war was that slavery would end, which was a major point in the North.

It did nothing to end slavery in the states that stayed with the North. It only freed the slaves in the states that were "rebelling." This was done in part to try and cause slave revolts in the South.

None, considering that the Northern states had abolished slavery earlier in the 19th century. It didn't even apply to the slave holding border states like Kentucky, Maryland, etc. that remained in the Union.