What did the Emancipation Proclamation accomplish?
A) It outlawed slavery throughout the United States.
B) It limited slavery, allowing it only in the states that were rebelling.
C) It initiated the era of Reconstruction.
D) It freed all slaves in the rebellious states.

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The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be forever free, but it did not apply to slave-holding border states that were not in rebellion.

What Did the Emancipation Proclamation Accomplish