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What did Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

A. Enslaved people in states that were rebelling were free.

B. African Americans in the North would be allowed to vote.

C. Citizens would be allowed to move to the West.

D. Enslavement was banned in the United States.

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The answer is A . Enslaved people in states that were rebelling were free
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Answer:

A. Enslaved people in states that were rebelling were free.

Step-by-step explanation:

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

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