2025 civics test · Question 95 of 128 · 1800s

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Official answers

• Freed the slaves
• Freed slaves in the Confederacy
• Freed slaves in the Confederate states
• Freed slaves in most Southern states

Why

Emancipation means freedom, and a proclamation is an announcement. Lincoln signed it in 1863, during the Civil War. It announced that people enslaved in most Southern states were free. Most of them were not actually freed until the Union won the war.