USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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Which of the following best describes how the Emancipation Proclamation addressed the issue of slavery effective January 1, 1863?

(A) It freed enslaved people in all United States territories.

(B) It freed enslaved people in the border states.

(C) ** It freed enslaved people in all territories in rebellion against the Union.

(D) It freed all enslaved people in the world.

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: -Which statement best describes Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? It freed all slaves in the Confederate states.

Concept note-4: -Which of the following is true of the Emancipation Proclamation? It freed slaves only in those areas over which the federal government exercised no control. Although ambiguous, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had great meaning as? A moral and political document.

Concept note-5: -The Emancipation Proclamation freed all people enslaved in states still in rebellion against the Union after January 1st, 1863.