What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
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Correct answer to question 95: Freed the slaves
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- Freed the slaves
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states
- Freed slaves in most Southern states
Why
The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared slaves in the rebelling Confederate states to be free. The 13th Amendment ended slavery everywhere when it was ratified in 1865.
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