2025 civics test · Question 95 of 128 · 1800s
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
In Chinese 《解放黑人奴隶宣言》起了什么作用？
Official answers
- Freed the slaves解放了奴隶
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy解放了南方邦联的奴隶
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states解放了南方邦联各州的奴隶
- Freed slaves in most Southern states解放了大多数南方州的奴隶
Any one of these answers is accepted unless the question asks for more than one.
Why this is the answer
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, and it took effect on January 1, 1863. It declared enslaved people in the Confederate states, the Southern states fighting against the Union, to be free. Slavery was later ended everywhere in the country by the 13th Amendment. Any of the listed answers, such as freed the slaves, is correct.