Question

Which of the following were true of the Emancipation Proclamation?

(MULTIPLE ANSWERS!)

A) It freed very few slaves immediately. It freed the slaves in the border states.
B) It came after the victory at Gettysburg.
C) It did not free slaves in already occupied Southern territory.
D) It ended the threat of English recognition of the Confederacy.
E) It laid the foundation for the Fifteenth Amendment.
E) It changed the significance of the war.

Answer 1

the answer is A and C

Step-by-step explanation:

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."