The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in which area?

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in which area?

• A. All slave states
• B. Border states only
• C. Seceded southern states
• D. No slaves in the United States

Answer: (C)

The important idea is that the Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime measure that freed enslaved people only in states that had seceded from the United States and were in rebellion. It did not apply to slaveholding border states that remained in the Union, and it didn’t free people in areas already under Union control. Full abolition across the country came later with the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. So the area that was freed by this proclamation was the seceded southern states.

The important idea is that the Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime measure that freed enslaved people only in states that had seceded from the United States and were in rebellion. It did not apply to slaveholding border states that remained in the Union, and it didn’t free people in areas already under Union control. Full abolition across the country came later with the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. So the area that was freed by this proclamation was the seceded southern states.