Reference no: EM132417012
Problem: Read the passage and answer the questions with reference to the passage itself where applicable. Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln...by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy...in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within...[rebel] States...are, and henceforward shall be free.... And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Required:
Question 1: Identify the authority cited to justify the Emancipation Proclamation?
Question 2: Identify the reason cited to justify the Emancipation Proclamation?
Question 3: What does the Emancipation Proclamation order and declare, meaning who did it set free?
Question 4: What are 2 reasons Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Question 5: How does the Emancipation Proclamation end with a tone of humility?