Q 01/05

On what date did the final Emancipation Proclamation take effect?

A) September 22, 1862

B) January 1, 1863

C) July 4, 1863

D) April 9, 1865

Answer · why

B) January 1, 1863

Officially it is Proclamation 95, a presidential proclamation and executive order issued in the middle of the Civil War.

Q 02/05

Roughly how many days separated the Preliminary Proclamation from the final one?

A) 40

B) 60

C) 80

D) 100

Answer · why

D) 100

The preliminary order of September 1862 warned that slaves in any state still in rebellion at the new year would be declared free.

Q 03/05

Roughly how many enslaved people had their legal status changed by the Emancipation Proclamation?

A) 1.5 million

B) 2 million

C) 3 million

D) 3.5 million

Answer · why

D) 3.5 million

That was most of the roughly 4 million enslaved people in the country; the border states and some Union-held areas were left out.

Q 04/05

The Emancipation Proclamation applied only to states in rebellion; how many states did it name?

A) Eleven

B) Ten

C) Thirteen

D) Fifteen

Answer · why

B) Ten

Eleven states had seceded, but one already under a Union military government was left off the list.

Q 05/05

Which seceded state was left out of the Emancipation Proclamation because a Union government ran it from Nashville?

A) Arkansas

B) Tennessee

C) Louisiana

D) North Carolina

Answer · why

B) Tennessee

The state adopted its own constitutional amendment banning slavery in early 1865, before the federal abolition amendment was ratified.