What caused America to become a free un-racist country to live in? The blacks were always treated unfairly and just completely unreasonable. A man named Abraham Lincoln helped free these blacks, and the Emancipation Proclamation was a start in doing so. What led to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and what were the causes of it. The black people first came to America to be slaves of the white men. They were treated with …showed first 75 words of 1346 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1346 total…bad. After Lincoln signed this after the battle of Antietam the reason for fighting had shifted. Now it was to end slavery. The North’s victory at Antietam caused Lincoln to sign this document. The North needed a win badly, and lincoln needed it to be able to sign the the Emancipation Proclamation. Antietam weakened the South’s government. After the war the South had no way out, but to follow the United States Constitution.