USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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After the Emancipation Proclamation ____

(A) African-Americans fled to Canada

(B) ** the purpose of the Civil War changed

(C) the Confederate Army executed slaves by the dozens

(D) slaves would be freed from the border states

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.