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2025 civics test · Question 95 of 128 · American History: 1800s
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Accepted answers
- Freed the slaves
- Freed slaves in the Confederacy
- Freed slaves in the Confederate states
- Freed slaves in most Southern states
About this question
- It is question 95 on the official USCIS list of 128 questions for the 2025 civics test, the test for people who filed Form N-400 on or after October 20, 2025. Which test do I take?
- The 2008 test asks the same question, as question 76 on the 2008 test. The accepted answers can be worded differently, so study the list for your own test.
- You only need to give one of the answers listed.
- It is not one of the 20 questions for 65/20 applicants.
- At the interview the officer asks up to 20 questions out loud and you need 12 correct answers to pass.
More questions on this topic
American History: 1800s
- 91. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
- 92. Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
- 93. The Civil War had many important events. Name one.
- 94. Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one.
- 96. What U.S. war ended slavery?
- 97. What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens?
- 98. When did all men get the right to vote?
- 99. Name one leader of the women’s rights movement in the 1800s.
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