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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irish and german immigration in the middle half of the nineteenth century more than one half of the population of ireland emigrated to the united states so did an equal number of germans most of them came because of civil unrest severe unemployment or almost inconceivable hardships at home