The emancipation proclamation was meant toshorten the war with slave owners setting them free. bring a quick end to the war. alert the south to the seriousness of casualties of war. show strength as president of the union that wanted the southern states back.

bring a quick end to the war

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i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years