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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

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Freed enslaved people in the Confederate (rebel) states — issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it declared all enslaved people in Confederate states to be legally free, marking a turning point in the Civil War

  1. A Ended World War I
  2. B Freed enslaved people in the Confederate (rebel) states — issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, it declared all enslaved people in Confederate states to be legally free, marking a turning point in the Civil War
  3. C Gave women the right to vote
  4. D Established the federal income tax

Why this is the answer

The EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War. It declared 'all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.' KEY POINTS: It applied only to Confederate states (not Border States that remained in the Union); it did not immediately free all enslaved people (Confederate states ignored it); it transformed the Civil War into explicitly a war against slavery; it allowed Black men to serve in the Union Army; it set the stage for the 13th Amendment (1865) which abolished slavery everywhere in the United States. USCIS Question 74: 'What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?' — Answer: freed the slaves; freed slaves in the Confederacy; freed slaves in the Confederate states; freed slaves in most Southern states.
Source: USCIS Civics Question 74 — Emancipation Proclamation

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