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Official question #95US Citizenship Test
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Correct answer
Freed slaves in the Confederacy
Also accepted: Freed the slaves · Freed slaves in the Confederacy · Freed slaves in the Confederate states · Freed slaves in most Southern states
Why
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863 and declared slaves in the Confederate states free. The 13th Amendment (1865) ended slavery throughout the country.
Answer choices
- AFreed slaves in the Confederacy
- BEnded the Revolutionary War
- CGave women the right to vote
- DCreated the Bill of Rights