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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The admission of German-speaking immigrants from eastern Europe continued into the twentieth century. Reichsdeutsche (Germans from Germany) were barred from entry into Canada from the onset of World War I until 1923. Between 1919 and 1935 some 90,000 German-speaking people arrived in Canada.