The coercive acts a. gave the royal governor the right to search private homes. b. set forth a long list of items that could be exported only to great britain. c. required colonists to export certain items only to britain. d. established a tax on virtually all forms of paper used by the colonists. e. gave the royal governor the right to select the upper house of the massachusetts legislature.

the emancipation proclamation was the aim of the war change to include the freeing of slaves in addition to preserving the union. the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery in the u.s. was passed on december 6th 1865.

as promised, lincoln waited to unveil the proclamation until he could do so with success from the union military advance. on september 22nd 1862, after a victory at antietam, he publicly announced a preliminary emancipation proclamation, declaring all slaves free in the rebellious states as of january 1st 1863.