The following document is the Emancipation Proclamation, made by President Lincoln on September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
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They were soon  joined by others from Scotland, Germany, and Ireland. The French  settled in Canada, Louisiana and the Ohio Valley. The Spanish  settled in the southwestern part of what is now the United States.  The second wave of immigrants, from 1820 to 1870, came from  northern and western Europe.