Question

Question 4(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)

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 ...

Why was this document written?

to free enslaved people
to issue orders to government officials
to declare that slavery was morally wrong
to punish rebellious slaves

Answer 1

A

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) to free enslaved people

Step-by-step explanation:

The passage is from the famous Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 when Abraham Lincoln issued an executive order to free all slaves in the country.

After the executive order passed it was seen by many confederate States as an open act of racial war between African-Americans and the white people.

However, it only practically freed slaves in States that were part of the Union territory. As the war continued and the Union made strides on Confederate lands African-Americans were freed.