Base your answer to the question on the passage below and on your knowledge of social
studies.

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 where of 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.

-Excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation, issued January 1, 1863

When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, in which part of the country did he free the slaves?

1. The North

2. The border states

3. The South

4. The western territories