What was one major effect of the order President Lincoln issued in the
passage?
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-
in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time
of actual armed rebellion against the authority and
government of the United States... I do order and declare
that all persons held as slaves within [the Confederacy]...
are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive
government of the United States, including the military and
naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the
freedom of said persons.¹
A. Great Britain decided not to recognize the Confederacy's
independence.
B. Support for the Union war effort became more popular in the
South.
OC. Most of the border states left the Union and joined the
Confederacy.
D. Thousands of enslaved people fled from Union territories to the