Question

Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the text.

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...

Who will enforce this document?
a.enslaved people in the United States
b.state government officials in the United States
c.people in designated parts of the United States
d.soldiers and sailors of the United States

Answer 1

d the south was put manly under marshal law in the reconstruction Ara to try to help former slaves start a new life.

Answer 2

The correct answer is B) state government officials in the United States

State government officials in the United States will enforce this document.

On January 1, 1963, United States President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The third year of the Civil War was about to start and President Lincoln declared that all slaves in the Confederate States should be free. The document was limited in that it could not be enforced at that time for the simple reason that the battles continued and the Union hadn't won the war yet.