Question 76: What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Accepted answers
•freed the slaves
•freed slaves in the Confederacy
•freed slaves in the Confederate states
•freed slaves in most Southern states
Why this matters
In 1863, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It freed slaves in the Southern states that were fighting against the U.S. This helped make the Civil War a fight to end slavery.