RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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abolished slavery in all states that were in open rebellion
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abolished slavery in the Border States
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ended the slave trade, but not slavery
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was deemed unconstitutional by the Taney Supreme Court
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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: -In 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Slavery was not abolished by the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation applied only to enslaved people in states that were in rebellion in 1863, namely South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina.