2008 test · Question 76 of 100
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Official USCIS answers
- freed the slaves
- freed slaves in the Confederacy
- freed slaves in the Confederate states
- freed slaves in most Southern states
Why this is the answer
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, during the Civil War. It declared that slaves in the Confederate states were free. It did not free slaves everywhere, only in the states fighting against the Union.
💡 Memory tip: Think: 'Emancipation' means freedom — it freed slaves in the rebelling South.
This is the 2008 test, for N-400s filed before October 20, 2025. Filed on or after that date? Use the 2025 test.
More from 1800s
- 71. What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
- 72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
- 73. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
- 74. Name one problem that led to the Civil War.
- 75. What was one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?
- 77. What did Susan B. Anthony do?
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Source: USCIS, Civics (History and Government) Questions for the Naturalization Test (rev. 01/19).