The Emancipation Proclamation was not aimed to free slaves in the border states because President Abraham Lincoln _____.
A: regarded those states as insignificant in the war plan
B: noted that those states had a minimal slave population
C: feared that those states would secede from the Union
D: found the strategy to be ineffective in those states
The Emancipation Proclamation was not aimed to free slaves in the border states because President Abraham Lincoln feared that those states would secede from the Union.
