What Were the Terms of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

question 69

Multiple Choice

What were the terms of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

• A) It would keep blacks in slavery in areas under rebellion on January 1, 1863.
• B) It gave the Confederacy until January 1, 1863, to come back into the Union.
• C) If the Confederacy returned to the Union by January 1, 1865, they could keep their slaves.
• D) It allowed slaves to leave the country to obtain their freedom if they wished.

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