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American History1800s
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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- Freed the slaves
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states
- Freed slaves in most Southern states
Why this is the correct answer
On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a wartime executive order. It declared that enslaved people in Confederate states still in rebellion were free, changing the Civil War into a fight not just to preserve the Union but to end slavery.
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