Which of the following Presidents of America abolished Slavery?
Correct answer: B. Abraham Lincoln
- A. Thomas jefferson
- B. Abraham Lincoln
- C. George washington
- D. Stanley jackson
Explanation
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared enslaved people in rebelling Confederate states free, and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationally. Jefferson and Washington were slaveholders, so they cannot be the answer.
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