What did Abraham Lincoln state in the Emancipation Proclamation? A. He declared that the American Civil War was over. B. He decl

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What did Abraham Lincoln state in the Emancipation Proclamation? A. He declared that the American Civil War was over. B. He decl

ared that slaves in rebellious states were free. C. He commanded all Union states to free their remaining slaves. D. He commanded the Confederate States to rejoin the Union.

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DaniilM [7] · Answer 1 · 2022-04-15T09:52:10+03:00

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

The answer: B