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Exercise
Respond to the following based on your reading.
In September of 1862, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. This executive order freed slaves in states that were in rebellion against the United States. Consider what you have read in your online resources and answer the following questions:
- What reasons could Lincoln have for making such a move during the Civil War?
- Why didn’t Lincoln free slaves in all of the United States?
1Slavery was an outdated institution and unethical notion and Lincoln, perhaps, had moral reasons. Another reason might be that slaves supported economy, and their freedom would weaken Southern economy and war efforts
2 He thought that he needed them in certain territories; otherwise, they could had joined the opposing side.
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Exercise
Consider the following (the table percentages stand for the percentage of the US resources in the North and South):
| Resources | North | South |
| Population | 71% | 29% |
| Railroad Mileage | 71% | 29% |
| Manufacturing Plants | 86% | 14% |
| Industrial Workers | 92% | 8% |
Use the image to answer the following questions.
- In what ways would the population advantage in the North help the Union’s war efforts?
- How would the miles of railroad work against the Confederacy?
- What are important war-related factors not included on this chart?
1 Resources, people and ultimately the quantity of soldiers. Industrial workers could produce more weaponry
2 South had less mileage, and the railroad was in worse condition. It was interrupting the movement of resources.
3 weather and territory. Southerners were on their own land and knew it well and used that to their advantage. Resourcefulness. Southerners were very resourceful and adapted to the new situation fast.
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