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Question 76

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

  1. It gave women the right to vote
  2. It gave African Americans the right to vote
  3. It ended the Civil War
  4. It freed slaves in the Confederate statesCorrect answer

Official answer

  • freed the slaves
  • freed slaves in the Confederacy
  • freed slaves in the Confederate states
  • freed slaves in most Southern states

Explanation

Lincoln's 1863 proclamation declared enslaved people in the rebelling states free. It did not end the war, and voting rights came later through the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments.

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Question 76: What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? · U.S. Civics Test 2008 · Questena