President lincoln waited for which of the following before issuing the emancipation proclamation? new states to join the union the passage of the thirteenth amendment a successful confederate military action a successful union military action

President Lincoln waited for a successful Union military action before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Option D is correct.

President Abraham Lincoln launched the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation stated "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

The Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation.