The correct answer is B) Many nations had already abolished slavery.
<em>The Emancipation Proclamation score big in Europe because many nations had already abolished slavery.</em>
On January 1, 1863, United States President Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation after three years of the Civil War. The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was that the slaves in the Southern states should be freed. This declaration depended on the possible victory of the Union Army over the Confederated States. This Lincoln's declaration transcended in European countries because in many European territories there was no slavery. They had already had desegregation laws.
This sentence is correctly punctuated because it separates the initial adverbial clause with a comma, and then puts another comma before the conjuncting adverb "while," which is correctly used joining two sentences.
