The law that continued the “work” of the Emancipation Proclamation is the Thirteenth Amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in December 1865, formally abolished slavery in the United States, thereby reinforcing and extending the goals of the Emancipation Proclamation, which had declared the freedom of enslaved people in the Confederate states.
What law continued the “work” of the Emancipation Proclamation?
the Civil Rights Act of 1866
the Fourteenth Amendment
the Fifteenth Amendment
the Thirteenth Amendment
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