The winter brings a little rainfall, but the summers are hot and dry. The average rainfall is about one inch of rain. The soil is rocky and shallow. The Semiarid Desert The semiarid desert's average temperature in the summer is 110.3 to 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared âthat all persons held as slavesâ within the rebel states âare, and henceforward shall be free.â The proclamation also called for the recruitment and establishment of black military units among the Union forces.
On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states. A preliminary proclamation was issued in September 1862, following the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. The act signaled an important shift in the Unionâs Civil War aims,expanding the goal of the war from reunification to include the eradication of slavery.