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Which factor contributed to Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

A. He was a strong abolitionist.
B. He needed the freed slaves to fight as soldiers in the Union Army.
C. He wanted to give the Union soldiers a moral cause that would encourage them to fight.
D. Congress was pressuring him to do so because slavery was evil.

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its not B I took the test :)


User Johnborges
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I belive it's either B or C, but if it were me, I would choose B

User Atabex
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