[DOC] [TLE] Emancipation Proclamation - Wikipedia [PAR] The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive 
order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It purported to 
change the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the 
designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free", although its actual effect was 
less. ... Prior to the Proclamation, in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Act of 
1850,... [DOC] [TLE] Emancipation Proclamation | HistoryNet [PAR] This proclamation not only declared to be free all slaves in areas of South 
Carolina, ... On July 17, 1862, Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, 
which declared ... Perhaps its most significant immediate effect was that it, for the 
first time, ... Around 2 p.m. the president quietly slipped out of the East Room and 
walked... [DOC] [TLE] Featured Documents | National Archives [PAR] Oct 6, 2015 ... On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery ... 
months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. ... slaves
" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free. [DOC] [TLE] Emancipation Proclamation - American Civil War - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of Emancipation Proclamation, including videos, 
... While the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, it was an ... 
and they put increasing pressure on Lincoln to proclaim an emancipation policy. 
... based on this premise: a second confiscation act that freed slaves of persons... [DOC] [TLE] Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom [PAR] If a rebellion, it might get out of hand, and turn its ferocity beyond slavery to the 
most ... free and slave, and by white abolitionists-its end could be orchestrated so 
as to set ..... Northern blacks organized resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act, 
denouncing ..... The Negro was stowed away like some people put out of sight 
their... [DOC] [TLE] The Emancipation Proclamation [ushistory.org] [PAR] The Emancipation Proclamation. ... And I hereby enjoin upon the people so 
declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence;
... [DOC] [TLE] Slavery and the Making of America . The Slave Experience - PBS [PAR] Instead, gradual emancipation laws set deadlines by which all slaves would be 
freed, ... Pennsylvania passed its Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in 1780. 
... Americans in the Northern states began to shape their lives as free people. ... 
that had been given to them as slaves, they sought out educational opportunities,
... [DOC] [TLE] Outline of American History - Chapter 3: The Road to Independence [PAR] More serious in its repercussions was the new financial policy of the British ... 
This act forbade the importation of foreign rum; put a modest duty on molasses 
from all .... Adams's goals were to free people from their awe of social and 
political ... Committees were set up in virtually all the colonies, and out of them 
grew a base... [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Black Colonization [PAR] Early in the day he presided over the final discussion of the proclamation with his 
cabinet. .... "It might be well to consider," he submitted, "whether the free colored 
people ... He could only be pleased that Congress, in its act to abolish slavery in 
the ... Lincoln set the Chiriqui project in motion by appointing James Mitchell as... [DOC] [TLE] Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation: Online Exhibit: New York ... [PAR] Oct 15, 2012 ... An online exhibit of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, ... for its regular 
meetings, sat an official-looking document, written out in ... A hundred days 
before, Lincoln had issued a preliminary Proclamation, vowing to free the ... into 
history it will be for this act," he told the people gathered in the room,... [DOC] [TLE] Freedmen, The Freed Slaves of the Civil War [PAR] Feb 16, 2002 ... Freedmen was the term given to those slaves who became free men after the ... 
taking refuge behind Union lines captives of war who were to be set free. The Act 
essentially paved the way for the Emancipation Proclamation

Question: Put out a proclamation! It's the act of setting people free
Answer: emancipation