GED Social Studies › Amendments and Emancipation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued during __________.
The Civil War
World War One
World War Two
The Revolutionary War
The Vietnam War
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, by President Abraham Lincoln. The Proclamation formally stated that the slaves living in the territories currently in open rebellion were now and forever free.