Q. 91 / 128American History → The 1800s
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
OFFICIAL ANSWER
- Freed the slaves
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states
- Freed slaves in most Southern states
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Context
Lincoln issued the proclamation as a wartime measure using his authority as commander-in-chief. It aimed to weaken the Confederacy economically and militarily while preventing European powers from supporting the South. The proclamation transformed the Civil War from a fight to preserve the Union into a fight for human freedom, though full legal emancipation required the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
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