Primary Sources: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
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Read the passage Primary Sources: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Primary Sources: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Then answer the questions below.
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. What is the MOST relevant context from that time for understanding this document?
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. What is the MOST relevant context from that time for understanding this document?
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What did Lincoln declare in the Emancipation Proclamation? Select two correct answers.
What did Lincoln declare in the Emancipation Proclamation? Select two correct answers.
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Drag the items to the correct box to identify which people the Emancipation Proclamation freed.
Drag the items to the correct box to identify which people the Emancipation Proclamation freed.
- an enslaved person living in South Carolina
- an enslaved person living in Maryland
- an enslaved person living in West Virginia
- an enslaved person living in part of Virginia that was not West Virginia
- Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
- Not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation