Studies Weekly Week 28

President Abraham Lincoln wrote an important document that called for the freedom of all slaves called the

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Economic Opportunity

• Gettysburg Address

The Emancipation Proclamation stated that on January 1, 1863 all the slaves in states that _____ the Union would be made free.

• supported

• opposed

• joined

The Emancipation Proclamation applied to people in 10 states, but not the _____ states.

• border

• Union

• Confederate

Match the word with the synonym or definition: proclamation

• official announcement

• a celebration on the day slaves in Texas heard they were free

• people who wanted freedom for slaves

• freedom

Match the word with the synonym or definition: emancipation

• official announcement

• a celebration on the day slaves in Texas heard they were free

• people who wanted freedom for slaves

• freedom

Match the word with the synonym or definition: Juneteenth

• official announcement

• a celebration on the day slaves in Texas heard they were free

• people who wanted freedom for slaves

• freedom

Match the word with the synonym or definition: abolitionists

• official announcement

• a celebration on the day slaves in Texas heard they were free

• people who wanted freedom for slaves

• freedom

Why did the Secretary of War support the Emancipation Proclamation?

• it let slaves join the Union Army

• it freed all the slaves in the country

• it helped the Confederate Army

• it made the war end sooner

What is written on the sides of the Lincoln Memorial?

• the Gettysburg Address

• the 13th Amendment

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• the Bill of Rights

Why didn’t the Emancipation Proclamation apply to Tennessee?

• Tennessee had a Union military government.

• Tennessee had too many slaves.

• Tennessee was in the South.

• Tennessee was too far west.