Question

Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the text.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...

To which states did this proclamation apply?
a. states in the United States
b. states fighting against the United States
c. states with military and naval authority
d. states that are loyal to the United States

Answer 1

b. states fighting against the United States

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

The correct answer is B) states fighting against the United States.

This proclamation applies to states fighting against the United States.

The excerpt of the text refers to the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in January 1863. The Proclamation freed slaves in the United States although this was not immediately possible because the Civil War was still fighting. The Proclamation is addressed to the Confederated States that had black slaves working long hours in the southern plantations.