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How did the emancipation proclamation change the focus of the civil war?

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Answer: It made the confederates think that they won the war because in the proclamation they thought that they could keep slavery even though Abraham Lincoln tried to get rid of it.

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It allowed for African American men to join the war, which increased the American Army Population substantially. 
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