Question 95 of 128 · The 1800s
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Accepted answers
- Freed the slaves
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states
- Freed slaves in most Southern states
Any one of these counts as correct — you do not have to give them all.
Why that is the answer
The Emancipation Proclamation declared that enslaved people in Confederate states were free, shifting the war toward ending slavery.
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