AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.
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Laid the groundwork for a future constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery.
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Allowed for African American men to fight in the Union army.
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All the Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -1) Which of the following did the Emancipation Proclamation do? Freed all slaves in the Confederate states that were not currently under Union control.
Detailed explanation-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."
Detailed explanation-3: -The Emancipation Proclamation was an edict issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union.
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.