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Which of the following best characterizes the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
It freed enslaved people in the North and the South.
It freed enslaved people in the states that had seceded.
It pleased Southern enslavers.
It angered Northern enslavers.
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It freed enslaved people in the states that had seceded.
(As a wartime measure, the proclamation applied to Confederate-held territories, not to loyal border states or Union-occupied areas; it also allowed Black men to join the Union army and changed the war's aim to include ending slavery.)
(As a wartime measure, the proclamation applied to Confederate-held territories, not to loyal border states or Union-occupied areas; it also allowed Black men to join the Union army and changed the war's aim to include ending slavery.)
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