Proclamation

Examples of Proclamation in the following topics:

• Emancipation

  • In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an executive order that freed the slaves in the Confederate states.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S.
  • The Proclamation did not compensate the owners, outlaw slavery, or grant ex-slaves, called "freedmen," citizenship.
  • The Proclamation did not free any slaves in the border states or make slavery illegal.
  • Areas covered by the Emancipation Proclamation are shown in red.

• The First Emancipation

  • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
  • Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • After Dunmore's Proclamation, 500 Virginia slaves promptly abandoned their Patriot masters and joined Dunmore's ranks.
  • The Earl of Dunmore issued a proclamation offering freedom to all slaves who would leave their masters and fight on behalf of Britain during the Revolutionary War.

• Pursuing Both War and Peace

  • The petition was rejected, and in August 1775, A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition (or the Proclamation of Rebellion) formally declared that the colonies were in rebellion.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was written before the Olive Branch Petition reached the British.
  • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
  • On October 26, 1775, King George III expanded on the Proclamation of Rebellion in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

• The Aftermath of the War

  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation enabled blacks to join the Union Army, giving the Union an advantage, and helped end the Civil War.
  • Although Lincoln's approach to emancipation was slow, the Emancipation Proclamation was an effective use of the President's war powers.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army.
  • They were nearly all freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • Slaves in the border states and those located in some former Confederate territory occupied prior to the Emancipation Proclamation were freed by state action or (on December 18, 1865) by the Thirteenth Amendment.

• The War and Its Consequences

  • Following the peace treaty, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on October 7.
  • The proclamation outlined the division and administration of the newly conquered territory.
  • The proclamation created a boundary line (often called the proclamation line) between the British colonies on the Atlantic coast and American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • The proclamation was less about respecting or preserving the American Indians' rights to their land; rather, it gave the British Crown a monopoly on all future land purchases from American Indians.
  • Indeed, the Royal Proclamation itself called for lands to be granted to British soldiers who had served in the Seven Years' War.

• Executive Orders

  • These orders carry the same force of law as executive orders—the difference between the two is that executive orders are aimed at those inside government while proclamations are aimed at those outside government.
  • The administrative weight of these proclamations is upheld because they are often specifically authorized by congressional statute, making them "delegated unilateral powers."
  • Presidential proclamations are often dismissed as a practical presidential tool for policymaking because of the perception of proclamations as largely ceremonial or symbolic in nature.
  • However, the legal weight of presidential proclamations suggests their importance to presidential governance.
  • Leland-Boker Authorized Edition of the Emancipation Proclamation, printed in June 1864 with a presidential signature

• The 13th Amendment

  • The Thirteenth Amendment completed the abolition of slavery in the United States, which had begun with President Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

• The Western Lands

  • The Royal Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the North American colonists from establishing or maintaining settlements west of a line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • The other intention of the proclamation was to concentrate colonial settlements on the seaboard, where they could be active participants in the British mercantile system.
  • The reaction of colonial land speculators and frontiersmen to this proclamation was highly negative.
  • Most concluded that the proclamation was only a temporary measure; a number ignored it entirely and moved into the prohibited area anyway.
  • Although Great Britain won control of the territory east of the Mississippi, the Proclamation Line of 1763 prohibited British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Union Politics

  • In order to increase public support for emancipation, Lincoln strategically chose to associate the Emancipation Proclamation with the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.
  • On September 22 of that year, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves within all Confederate states that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
  • When none of the states returned to the Union by that date, Lincoln honored his proclamation, and the order immediately took effect.
  • Predictably, the Confederates were initially outraged by the Emancipation Proclamation and used it as further justification for their rebellion.
  • Additionally, these Democrats viewed the Proclamation as an unconstitutional abuse of Presidential power.

• Discontent on the Frontier

  • The British government sought to prevent further violence by issuing the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which created a boundary between colonists and Native Americans.
  • The proclamation acknowledged that Native Americans owned the lands on which they were then residing, and white settlers in the area were to be removed.
  • The proclamation had little to do with affection for the tribes, but simply reflected the facts that Indian conflicts were very expensive and that the British had not yet deployed sufficient soldiers in the west to keep the peace.
  • Some Indians welcomed this policy, believing that the separation of the races would allow them to resume their traditional lifestyles; others realized that the proclamation, at best, would only provide some breathing room before the next onslaught of settlers.
  • Indeed, the proclamation itself called for lands to be granted to British soldiers who had served in the Seven Years' War.