The 1800s · Question 1 of 12
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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- A Freed slaves in the Confederate states
Explanation
Lincoln's proclamation of 1863 declared the slaves in the seceded Southern states free; USCIS accepts "Freed the slaves" and the more precise versions. It did not apply in the border states that stayed with the Union – there slavery ended only with the 13th Amendment in 1865.