Multiple choice
The Emancipation Proclamation was important because...?
A. It declared that all African Americans in reblling states were free from slavery.
B. It dedicated a national cemetery to African Americans who served in the war.
C. It made slavery illegal only in the northern states.
D. It proclaimed that the Union had won the war.
1 answer
A. It declared that all African Americans in rebelling states were free from slavery.