American HistoryQuestion 76 of 128
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
a.It ended the Revolutionary War
b.It created the Bill of Rights
c.It gave women the right to vote
d.It freed enslaved people in the Confederate states
Explanation
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln in 1863, declared that enslaved people in the Confederacy were free. It made ending slavery a goal of the Civil War. Slavery was fully abolished by the 13th Amendment.
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