Sidi M. El Ofir's American History Blog

-The writ of babeas corpus: This is a legal protection requiring that a court determine if a person is lawfully imprisoned.

- Most Northeners approved of Lincoln's actions as necessary to restore the Union.

- Lincoln explained about the abolition of slavery in a letter to Horace Greeley, an abolitionist newspaper editor.

- On New Year's Day, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamtion.

- After Lincoln's September announcement, the Democratic Party made gains in the congressional elections of November 1862.

- Called contraband, these captured items then became the property of the enemy government.

- African American Soldiers

- Black volunteers were not allowed to join the union army.