Question

1. choose the best answer.

what was the main accomplishment of the emancipation proclamation?
the enslaved people in seceding states immediately enjoyed freedom.
it made the abolition of slavery as a war aim a matter of record.
it freed the more than 800,000 enslaved men and women in the four union slave states.
it pleased northerners who wanted the war to be about abolition.

1. choose the best answer.

the civil war was the bloodiest war in american history with about ____ military personnel killed and many more injured for life.
1,000,000
56,000
600,000
410,000

Explanation:

For question 5, the Emancipation Proclamation made the abolition of slavery a war - aim. It didn't immediately free all enslaved people as it applied only to Confederate - held territory. It didn't free those in Union slave states. Its main significance was in re - framing the war's purpose.
For question 6, the American Civil War had about 600,000 military personnel killed, making it the bloodiest war in American history.

Answer:

1. It made the abolition of slavery as a war aim a matter of record.
2. 600,000