Lincoln's Issuance of an Emancipation Proclamation

question 44

Multiple Choice

Lincoln's issuance of an emancipation proclamation

• A) was delayed on the advice of General George McClellan.
• B) won universal support throughout the North.
• C) led to a strong Republican showing in the congressional and state elections of 1862.
• D) followed the narrow Union victory in the Battle of Antietam.
• E) led Great Britain to recognize the independence of the Confederate States of America.

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