195k views
3 votes
Please write this in different words and make it 4 sentences:

President Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free.

User Ethan T
by
5.1k points

2 Answers

2 votes

n September 22, the president announced that slaves in areas still in rebellion within 100 days would be free. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, which declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebel states “are, and henceforward shall be free.

User Christian Hirsch
by
4.6k points
1 vote

On january 1, 1863, President Lincoln provided the emancipation proclomation.

The nation was approaching its third year in the Civil war.

The Civil War had a lot of bloodshed on both sides.

The proclamation stated "that all persons held as slaves" in the southern states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

User Alexdmejias
by
4.9k points