USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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What does the word emancipation mean?

(A) ** the act of being freed

(B) genuine or real; earnest

(C) to keep under control; restrain

(D) to get rid of

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -emancipated; emancipating. : to free from someone else’s control or power. especially : to free from slavery.

Concept note-2: -Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchised group, or more generally, in discussion of many matters.

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

Concept note-4: -Liberation means the setting free of someone or something.