Question

Which of the following documents, was an executive order issued by Abraham

Lincoln that declared that all slaves living in confederate areas that had not yet
been captured by the Union were free. ** NOTE President Lincoln and his
administration never acknowledged any legitimacy of the CSA (Confederate
States of America) So in their minds all of the so called confederate states were
still part of the United States of America and it was his jurisdiction to implement
Executive Orders that ALL STATES had to follow. *
Declaration of War
Gettysburg Address
State of the Union Address
Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 1

Emancipation Proclamation

Step-by-step explanation:

Lincoln, like several of his generals, began to see that committing the United States to abolishing slavery would only help its cause. In the summer of 1862, he began to hash out the details of the Emancipation Proclamation.