(A) That slavery in the north was over
(B) ** That slavery in the south was over
(C) That slavery wouldn’t spread west
(D) That slavery would be voted on in the next election
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -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-2: -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.
Concept note-3: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, as the Nation was in the middle of the Civil War.