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Primary Sources: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
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Read the passage
Primary Sources: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage
Primary Sources: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Then answer the questions below.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. What is the MOST relevant context from that time for understanding this document?
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
The American Civil War between North and South began in 1861.
Construction on the transcontinental railroad across America began in 1863.
The British Empire abolished slavery in 1833.
What did Lincoln declare in the Emancipation Proclamation? Select
two
correct answers.
Newly freed people should take up arms against the people who enslaved them.
All enslaved people in places that rebelled against the United States would be free.
Newly freed people could join the United States Army during the war.
All enslaved people throughout the United States would be free.
Drag the items to the correct box to identify which people the Emancipation Proclamation freed.
an enslaved person living in part of Virginia that was not West Virginia
an enslaved person living in West Virginia
an enslaved person living in Maryland
an enslaved person living in South Carolina
Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
Not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation