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Best Answer: The Emancipation Proclamation greatly impacted the South. Plantation owners lost many of their slaves; thus losing their crops. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy of the South. The freed slaves went North and joined the Union Army which was a major factor for the North winning the Civil War.
One major immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation to  African Americans in the North was that they could now fight in the  Civil War. After the establishment of thâ¦e United States Colored  Troops, over 200,000 black men of 'suitable condition' served in  the Union Army and Navy.