Question

Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the text.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our

Answer 1

Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the text.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...


What is one question this passage leaves unanswered? Describe another source that might help you answer that question.

Answer 2

Help Please D:

Answer 3

So what are you having trouble with. Basically your question is asking you to read the beginning of the Emancipation Proclamation, and come up with something that Lincoln didn't address.

Answer 4

I dont get it :(

Answer 5

Okay, basically what Lincoln is saying in the Emancipation Proclamation is that all slaves in the Confederate States of America were free by order of the United States of America Government.

The passage also talks about how the government (including the military) would recognize former slaves as free, and not impede their progress towards said freedom.

So, can you think of anything Lincoln might not have addressed in that passage?

Answer 6

let me think.. i'im slow at ths

Answer 7

No problem, take your time!

Answer 8

is it why he did it?

Answer 9

He did it to free the slaves that the South (confederates) were holding. However, the Confederate States of America were recognized as a separate country during the civil war. Think about it, how would you react if someone told you what you could and couldn't do in a house that you owned? You'd probably feel like the CSA did, and disregard it entirely. So all the Emancipation Proclamation really did in that regard was make public the intentions of the United States of America regarding their position on slavery.

Answer 10

okay thank you.!

Answer 11

@Rag433
did you answer the question? I still don't get it