United States History Question of the Day


Abraham Lincoln composing the Emancipation Proclamation
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Question 0940:

Slavery was outlawed in the border state of Kentucky

(A) when Ulysses S. Grant expelled Confederate troops from the state
(B) with the implementation of the Emancipation Proclamation
(C) with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution
(D) with the Supreme Court's decision in the Slaughterhouse Cases
(E) with Lincoln's re-election in 1864


Answer and explanation