Question

The Emancipation Proclamation was not aimed to free slaves in the border states because President Abraham Lincoln _____.

A: regarded those states as insignificant in the war plan
B: noted that those states had a minimal slave population
C: feared that those states would secede from the Union
D: found the strategy to be ineffective in those states

Answer 1

The Emancipation Proclamation was not aimed to free slaves in the border states because President Abraham Lincoln feared that those states would secede from the Union.

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