The Emancipation Proclamation
Title
:
The Emancipation Proclamation
Author
:
McComb, Marianne.
ISBN
:
9780792279167
Publication Information
:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c2006.
Physical Description
:
40 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 26 cm.
Series
:
American documents (Washington, D.C.)
General Note
:
Originally published: 2004.
Includes index.
Reading Level
:
890 L Lexile
Personal Subject
:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Corporate Subject
:
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.
Subject Term
:
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States
African Americans -- History.
Geographic Term
:
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Summary
:
This book describes the roots of slavery in the United States, and examines the reasons why certain people and states were for it, while others were opposed to it. It also explains why President Lincoln issued the proclamation when he did, whom the proclamation freed, and whom it did not, and some of the effects it had on future events. Readers learn about the differences between northern and southern economies, how slavery became a states rights issue, how Congress struggled to maintain a balance between free and slave states, and how Lincoln's election forced 11 southern states to leave the Union and hastened the beginning of the Civil War--Publisher.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | J 973.714 MCC | Nonfiction Collection |
Stillwater Public Library | J 973.714 MCC | Nonfiction Collection |