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Where to begin. Lets Katrina wasn't completely Bush's fault be he was party to blame. The local and State officials botched the situation and the levies should have been fixed long before the disaster. That said the Federal government was just as pathetic as the local and state governments. FEMA and its molasses like pace didn't help things in the least and the National Guard was there like they supposed to because Bush had them in Iraq.

Well actually the Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves. It only freed the slaves in the Confederacy. Since the Confederacy considered themselves a separate country they ignored it. The Border states that fought alongside the North were allowed to maintain their slaves.