Emancipation Proclamation

What does "emancipation" mean?

• to fight

• to free

• to love

• to be president

Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Andrew Jackson

• Frederick Douglass

• Ulysses S Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Emancipation Proclamation did NOT free the slaves living in the ______.

• Border states

• Union States

• Confederate States

• Western States

The Emancipation Proclamation also said that former slaves could become ______.

• Union soldiers

• President

• Congressmen

• Teachers

After the Emancipation Proclamation, all the slaves in the southern states immediately left their masters and pranced happily away in freedom

• TRUE

• FALSE

Lincoln stated that he felt the Emancipation Proclamation was the correct thing to do because _____.

• It was justice

• It was constitutional

• It would help win the war

• All of these

After the Emancipation Proclamation, it was clear that the war was now about ______.

• Winning

• Ending slavery

• Keeping the Union together

• Voting rights