Question 95: 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
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Southern states that left the Union. President Lincoln signed it on January 1, 1863. The 13th Amendment in 1865 ended all slavery in America.