How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the course of the civil war?
1 Answer
Dec 27, 2015
It didn't.
Explanation:
The Emancipation Proclamation was simply a speech given by Pres. Lincoln declaring that anyone held as a slave would be free. But it was just a speech and not law. It took the enactment of the 13th Amendment to make it the law of the land. The proclamation itself had no effect on the war itself.
