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What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Why did Lincoln decide to go through with passing it?

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Lincoln added the Emancipation Proclomation as a military necessity to rise in numbers to beat the confederates quickly with his second term in office. The Emancipation Proclomation made slavery illegal in the Ex-Confederate states in the south while allowing slavery in the north and even border states.

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