(A) An executive order by Abraham Lincoln declaring that all slaves were free.
(B) ** An executive order by Abraham Lincoln declaring that all Confederate slaves were free.
(C) An executive order by Abraham Lincoln declaring that only Northern slaves were free.
(D) An executive order by Abraham Lincoln declaring that all slaves in the Union could vote.
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Concept note-1: -The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free.
Concept note-2: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."
Concept note-3: -That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that enslaved people in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be declared free.