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Thank you We sneak then here's your smoke du jour

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brought to you by the civil war If that was

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bad imagine what an uncivil war would look like I

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check out the excerpt proclamations even browning to the whole

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country Any radical they shrugged her shoulders dangling from lincoln

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to the background blunders but follows campaign direction people And

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now for the question the emancipation proclamation was a continuance

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of which of the following developments and here your potential

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answers slavery Well the trick here is paying attention to

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the word continuance We've got to figure out which of

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these options the emancipation proclamation was building on She is

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an obvious no The proclamation was a slap in the

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face to the south So it couldn't have been a

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continuation of european support for the southern cause which was

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pretty much non existent by this point in the war

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Anyway he is off the mark too The emancipation proclamation

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wasn't directly caused by shifts in the northern economy North

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was all about industrial revolution and technology and lot of

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other things So cross out d it wasn't caused by

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the abolishment of slavery either you know painfully So we

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can nix option a emancipation proclamation actually only freed slaves

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in states that had seceded in slave states that never

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left the union Like maryland slavery was still technically legal

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The actual abolishment of slavery for all slaves in america

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didn't come until the passage of the thirteenth amendment in

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eighteen sixty four It's been a long year in maryland

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Well the correct answer is b At first glance it

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may have seemed like the emancipation proclamation was all about

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lincoln doing the right thing But it also happened to

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be the bearded presidents successful strategy for building on the

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mobilization of the north and winning the war Great choice

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abe Now if only your strategic thinking extended to knowing

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when to avoid the theater way heard mrs lincoln said 00:01:53.862 --> [endTime] the play was really good to sin Oh

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