AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It freed enslaved people in all United States territories.
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It freed enslaved people in the border states.
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It freed enslaved people in all territories in rebellion against the Union.
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It freed all enslaved people in the world.
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Detailed explanation-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."
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement best describes Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? It freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Emancipation Proclamation freed all people enslaved in states still in rebellion against the Union after January 1st, 1863.