What Would Have Been a Practical Outcome of the Emancipation

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Multiple Choice

What would have been a practical outcome of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• A) All Confederate slaves would be freed gradually.
• B) Slaveowners would be compensated for their property.
• C) It took away from the propaganda of the abolitionists.
• D) The freeing of slaves would weaken the Confederate war effort.
• E) It only affected slaves working on cotton plantations.

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Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Population Mean

The average of a set of characteristics (numeric values) in a population; a parameter that describes the central location of the data.

Sample Mean

The average of all data points in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Unbiased Estimators

Statistical estimators whose expected value is equal to the parameter being estimated.