Q76: What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Discover the profound effect of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued during the Civil War, which freed slaves in most of the Confederacy. Despite initially being unenforceable, it weakened the South's war efforts by liberating their slaves and inviting them to join the Union Army. The Proclamation, a bold move by Lincoln under his constitutional power as commander-in-chief, faced mixed reactions in the North but ultimately proved to be a pivotal moment in American history. Frederick Douglass recognized its moral force, and Lincoln himself called it his greatest contribution to the war and to the 19th century.

Check out more videos like this in our Civics Fundamentals series with Judge Douglas Ginsburg. This is question 76 of the 100 questions asked on the U.S. naturalization test.

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