What were the limits of the final Emancipation Proclamation?
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
The ideal answer should:
1. Define the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation and its terms.
2. Outline the limitations: it emancipated slaves only in areas still in rebellion and not in four border states still in the Union or areas of Confederate states the Union had already occupied.
3. Point out that thousands of African Americans remained in slavery within the Union despite the proclamation.
4. Conclude that the act did not end slavery; it accelerated the destruction of the institution.
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The political party behind the Nanjing government was
a. the New Life Movement. c. the Goumindang. b. the New Youth. d. the Chinese Communist Party.
In the early eighteenth century, the British government created a federal system of government that divided power between
A) central authority and local government. B) its various colonies in the Americas. C) the crown, Parliament, and the courts. D) commercial and political interests in the colonies. E) Protestants and Catholics.
Under the code of chivalry, a common soldier could expect what if he were captured in battle?
a. conscription into the other side's army. b. imprisonment c. death d. being held for ransom. e. having to wait until a mutual exchange of prisoners of war occurred.
The introduction of governmental public services in Europe did not involve
A) the installation of sewers. B) urban transportation. C) running water in homes. D) street lights. E) public bathing houses.