Question

In the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln stated that all _______.

• A. slaves in the states in rebellion would be freed.
• B. slaves in the border states would be freed.
• C. slaves in the United States would be free at the end of the Civil War.
• D. children born to slaves would be born free.
• E. slaves in the North would be freed.

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

slaves in the states in rebellion would be freed.

The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved people in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. It was Abraham Lincoln's declaration that all slaves would be permanently freed in all areas of the Confederacy that had not already returned to federal control by January 1863. Lincoln had only one reason to fight which was to save the Union. In time, however, there was another reason to fight i.e to free the black people held as slaves in the South.