Order to Free Slaves 'Beginning of America Really Becoming America'

USCIS 100:76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

VOAVideo: Order to Free Slaves 'Beginning of America Really Becoming America'

It was 150 years ago that Union and Confederate troops squared off at Antietam Creek, Maryland, - a major Civil War victory for the Union that some historians say changed the course of American history. That's because five days later President Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which eventually brought an end to slavery in the United States. Mariama Diallo reports from the Washington memorial that bears the 16th president's name, where hundreds gathered to reflect the nation's past.

USCIS 100:75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?*

▪ freed the slaves (Emancipation Proclamation)
▪ saved (or preserved) the Union
▪ led the United States during the Civil War

USCIS 100:76. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

▪ freed the slaves
▪ freed slaves in the Confederacy
▪ freed slaves in the Confederate states
▪ freed slaves in most Southern states