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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Loyalists from the US to Canada. - left because did not agree to live in new country independent of Britain. - 50 % of the Loyalists were women and children. - The conflict rooted in British: attempts to assert economic control in American colonies after costly victory over French during Seven Years War.