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.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. The Emancipation Proclamation, formally issued on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln is often mistakenly praised as the legal instrument that ended slaveryâactually, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in December 1865, outlawed Slavery.oming as it did in the midst of the Civil War (1861â65), the proclamation announced to the Confederacy and the world that the Abolition of slavery had become an important goal of the North in its fight against the rebellious states of the South.