civil war
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- Slide: 1
- 23,000 soldiers were killed
- Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union.
- WE DO NOT SUPPORT THE EQUALITY
- get me out of here
- General Lee invades the North in an attempt to isolate Washington, D.C., but finds himself thwarted by General McClellan and the Union forces. The Union is aided by a copy of Lee's orders, left by a Confederate soldier at a campsite.
- we just wanted peace
- Slide: 2
- hoping to introduce his proclamation after a more favorable military battle.
- I believes the border states will remain in the Union. but I will wait to address the nation publicly
- SIR,THE CIVIL WAR IS GETTING WORSE
- EMANCIPATION! COMRAD EMANCIPATION
- Lincoln announces to his cabinet his intention to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
- Slide: 3
- FREEDOM!!!!!
- On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
- In a single stroke of his pen, Abraham Lincoln issued the most revolutionary measure ever to come from an American President up to that time.
- FINALLY!
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