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soldier1979 [14.2K]
3 years ago
15

Read the following excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War

. Which of the following best summarizes this excerpt? Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. 6 A. The U.S. government recognizes that slavery is wrong. B. Slavery in the United States is illegal. C. All enslaved people in the United States are free. D. Enslaved people in the rebelling states are free.
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2 answers:
VMariaS [17]3 years ago
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D. Enslaved people in the rebelling states are free. this answer i got wrong i messaged my teacher and she said it was right so this is the apex approved answer. hope you pass :)

Liula [17]3 years ago
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The answer would be D. enslaved people in the rebelling states are free
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