It kept the British and French from granting recognition to the Confederacy. The Proclamation turned the war into an official crusade against slavery, so free nations abroad could no longer help the slave-owning South without looking pro-slavery themselves.
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Proclamation, as in Emancipation Proclamation.
They wanted it abolished.
Northerners and southerners became more angry with each other.
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
traitors.