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What did the Emancipation proclamation do

A. Call the end of the Civil War
B.Called for the creation of state borders
C. Called for an end to Southern secession
D. Call for the freeing of slaves in the Confederate state

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Answer: D

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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."

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