USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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In this document, what ultimatum was given the states that had seceded from the union?

(A) Only the slaves states in rebellion were freed

(B) The Emancipation Proclamation open the door for black soldiers so they joined the Army and allow them to be free

(C) ** The ultimatum that was given was that slaves would be able to be free and part of the military and the military had to protect them

(D) Violence

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -In the fall of 1862, President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) gave the Confederacy an ultimatum: return to the Union with slavery intact, or come January 1, 1863, he would free the slaves in the Confederate states.

Concept note-2: -Within a week of that victory, Lincoln ordered the rebellious states to obey this ultimatum within 100 days: “Either return to your legal balance with the Union, end this rebellion, or your slaves will be then, henceforward and forever free."

Concept note-3: -Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not immediately free a single slave, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of African Americans, and fundamentally transformed the character of the war from a war for the Union into a war for freedom.

Concept note-4: -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."