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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?

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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.

  • an enslaved person living in South Carolina
  • an enslaved person living in part of Virginia that was not West Virginia
  • an enslaved person living in West Virginia
  • an enslaved person living in Maryland
  • Freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
  • Not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
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