Proclamation Essays

Proclamation Act of 1763The Proclamation Act of 1763 was a major change for both the English andthe French. For the English, they wanted to assimilate the French. This wasnecessary for two reasons. One, the British had, after all, conquered them, and wished to create afull British Empire. They thought that the only way to do…

The Emancipation ProclamationThe emancipation proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1,1863, during the American Civil War, declaring all “slaves within any State, ordesignated part of a State… then… in rebellion,… shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free.”The states affected were enumerated in theproclamation; specifically exempted were slaves in parts of the South then heldby…