Fill in the Blanks Emancipation ProclamationOnline version Complete the text related to the Emancipation Proclamation with the words missing. by Norma García 1 compensated 1849 freed Lincoln property As early as , Abraham believed that slaves should be emancipated , advocating a program in which they would be gradually . Early in his presidency , still convinced that gradual emacipation was the best course , he tried to win over legistators . To gain support , he proposed that slaveowners be for giving up their " . " Support was not forthcoming . 2 Proclamation free victory returned Confederate slaves rebellion In September of 1862 , after the Union's at Antietam , Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that , unless the rebellious states to the Union by January 1 , freedom would be granted to within those states . The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation . No states took the offer , and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation . The proclamation declared , " all persons held as slaves within any States , or designated part of the State , the people whereof shall be in against the United States , shall be then , thenceforward , and forever . " 3 loyal symapthy control not irony The Emancipation Proclamation did free all slaves in the United States . Rather , it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union . William Seward , Lincoln's secretary of state , commented , " We show our with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free . " Lincoln was fully aware of the , but he did not want to antagonize the slave states to the Union by setting their slaves free . 4 black war desperately The proclamation allowed soldiers to fight for the Union - - soldiers that were needed . It also tied the issue of slavery directly to the .
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