Civics question 95 of 128
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
4 accepted answers
- Freed the slaves
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states
- Freed slaves in most Southern states
You only need to give one of these. The officer accepts any of them.
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Where this question sits
It is part of 1800s, inside the American History section of the test.
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