(A) ** January 1, 1863
(B) January 5, 1864
(C) April 1, 1862
(D) March 6, 1863
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: -With this Proclamation he hoped to inspire all Black people, and enslaved people in the Confederacy in particular, to support the Union cause and to keep England and France from giving political recognition and military aid to the Confederacy.
Concept note-3: -The official handwritten record of General Order No. 3, is preserved at the National Archives Building in Washington, DC. The National Archives also holds the DC Emancipation Act. On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia.
Concept note-4: -President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the midst of the Civil War, announcing on September 22, 1862, that if the rebels did not end the fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states would be free.
Concept note-5: -The Proclamation broadened the goals of the Union war effort; it made the eradication of slavery into an explicit Union goal, in addition to the reuniting of the country. The Proclamation also prevented European forces from intervening in the war on behalf of the Confederacy.