Why did the Emancipation Proclamation only apply to states outside of the Union?(1 point) Responses States within the Union had already abolished slavery. States within the Union had already abolished slavery. President Lincoln only had the authority to ban slavery in the Confederacy, not the Union. President Lincoln only had the authority to ban slavery in the Confederacy, not the Union. President Lincoln wanted to preserve slavery in the Union but punish Confederate states. President Lincoln wanted to preserve slavery in the Union but punish Confederate states. The Reconstruction Amendments already banned slavery inside the U.S.
The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to states outside of the Union because President Lincoln only had the authority to ban slavery in the Confederacy, not the Union. Additionally, states within the Union had already abolished slavery, so there was no need for the proclamation to apply to them. Furthermore, the Reconstruction Amendments, which were passed after the Emancipation Proclamation, already banned slavery inside the U.S. So, the Emancipation Proclamation primarily served to free enslaved people in Confederate states and to weaken the Confederate war effort.
