The year is 1863. The United States is entering into the third year of the War of Northern Aggression. Already hundreds of thousands of lives have already been lost by the United States alone in this bloodiest war the World has ever seen. President Lincoln is posed with a serious problem. Not only is he losing his grip in the South more and more every day, but the threat that Great Britain will join the War on the side of the Confederacy is an ever looming threat. France makes similar threats, but no one pays attention to the French. Lincoln must not only find a way to keep the British out of the fight, but he must do it while fighting off fits of laughter at the thought that France might ever actually attack the United States.
             So on January 1st, 1863 shortly after a much needed victory at Shiloh, President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, a document freeing slaves in territories that have seceded from the Untied States. This document changed the face of History by keeping the British out of the War and preserving the Union. By making the war an issue of slavery, Lincoln effectively kept the British out of the war, for Britain had just abolished slavery in their country. And how could a country that had just abolished slavery purely on moral grounds, fight to preserve slavery in another State? And with the threat of British involvement gone, the French realized they might actually have to confront the Americans and turned tail and fled.
             In spite of the tremendous effects abroad, the Proclamation was not received nearly as well at home. Southerners were of course outraged at the presumptuousness of the Federal government to exert this kind of power, the very reason for which they had started the war to begin with. Additionally, the Rebels felt that this was an attack on their way of life, and realized this would eliminate all chances of compromise. Things didn't bode much
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