USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

END OF THE CIVIL WAR

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What does the word “emancipate” mean?

(A) ** to set free

(B) to surrender

(C) to give citizenship

(D) to give voting rights

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -emancipated; emancipating. : to free from restraint, control, or the power of another. especially : to free from bondage. emancipated the slaves.

Concept note-2: -emancipated; emancipating; emancipates If you emancipate someone, you set them free from something. At the end of the Civil War, slaves were emancipated and became free men and women.

Concept note-3: -1. the act of freeing or state of being freed; liberation. 2. informal. freedom from inhibition and convention.