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What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

It freed the slaves in the Confederate states.

  1. Gave women the right to vote
  2. Freed slaves in the Confederate states ✔
  3. Ended the Revolutionary War

Why: The Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate states free. Women got the vote in 1920, and the Revolutionary War ended in 1783.

Huh, didn't know that: The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, ended slavery everywhere in the United States.

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Sources

  1. USCIS M-1778 (09/25), 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version) https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/2025-Civics-Test-128-Questions-and-Answers.pdf

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