The Emancipation Proclamation
This Proclamation gave freedom to all of the slaves in the South. It was creaed on September 22, 1862. This was created by Abraham Lincoln, after the Battle of Antietam. But since The Confederate States of America was no longer part of the U.S, Lincoln could not enforce this law to land that no longer belonged to him. So, this didn't help many of the slaves, since the Confederacy just ignored what the Proclamation had to say. But, Lincoln made sure that England and France couldn't help the South to beat the North. THey pur pressure on those two countries until they switched to getting their cotton from Egypt. Since the South had relied on those two powerful coutries to help them, the South now had a huge disadvantage of a smaller population.