(A) ** January 1, 1863
(B) July 4, 1776
(C) January 1, 1836
(D) July 4, 1863
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -The U.S. President Abraham Lincon issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the Confederate States on January 1, 1863.
Concept note-2: -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-3: -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-4: -On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Concept note-5: -5. Which of the following correctly identifies the main impact of the Emancipation Proclamation? All slaves were immediately freed throughout the United States.