Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863("Emancipation Proclamation 1863"). It showed how change was beginning in American History. Americans since the start of the colonies in Jamestown had been fighting for world position and dominance since their break from England. The American thirteen colonies had different philosophies. Those philosophies boiled over to allow for the creation of the Civil War. The Civil War has always been a problem for the American history books. The two main problems that arose from those different philosophies were money and slavery. These were the factors that lead to start of the Civil War. Slavery was the main issue at the hand because it dictated how much both sides would eventually show power over each other ("Emancipation Proclamation 1863"). The problem came to a head when the government was losing money. The south was making more money that the north, since the south had slave labor. That slave labor gave the south an advantage, because they could turn out a quicker product than the north could due to their extra man power.

Lincoln need a way to preserve the union, as well as preserved capitalism. He needed to figure out a way to make the playing field even, so the north as well as the south could thrive. By making this playing field even it would bring more money to the nation as a whole. He would begin to draft documents that would help the nation to get back on its feet. He knows he had to get a hold on the south because they were rebelling and not playing fair, and therefore capitalism was suffering. The Emancipation Proclamation was not just a document to free the slaves, it was to release the strangle hold the South had on America economics. Once this hold was released it would in turn preserve American capitalism.

The Emancipation Proclamation declared all "slaves within any State, or

designated part of a State then in rebellion, shall be then, hence forward, and...