Mr.  Pettit
APUSH
On  September  22,  1862,  Abraham  Lincoln  made  the  Emancipation
Proclamation  public.    By  January  1 st ,  all  slaves  “in  area  of  rebellion”   were  pronounced,  free.    Opinions  on  this  statement  were  divided,   and  it  officially  changed  the  objective  for  the  Union  in  fighting  the
Civil  War.    How  do  you  think  each  of  the  following  types  of  people
would  have  felt  about  the  Emancipation  Proclamation?
1.
A  slave  living  in  the  Confederacy:
2.        A  liberal  European  political  leader:
3.
The  governor  of  a  border  state,  already  controlled  by  the  Union:
4.
A  northern  factory  worker:
5.      A  draftee  to  the  Union  army  in  1863: