USA HISTORY

During the Civil War, northern black leaders such as Frederick Douglass worked as army recruiting agents because they believed which of the following?

(A) It was the best way to prevent blacks from being drafted.

(B) Blacks were more resistant to the diseases that ravaged white soldiers in the garrisons.

(C) Blacks would get to see their loved ones in the South only by fighting for the Union.

(D) ** Black participation in the army would be a step toward black citizenship.

Concept note-1: -He recruited African Americans to fight in the Union army, including two of his sons, and he continued to write and speak against slavery, arguing for a higher purpose to the war.

Concept note-2: -Recruiting Colored Troops In 1863, Frederick Douglass began recruiting black soldiers across the North, participating in a larger effort that by the end of the war, brought nearly 200, 000 African American men into the Union forces.

Concept note-3: -The Army was authorized to raise two regiments of black cavalry (the 9th and 10th (Colored) Cavalry) and four regiments of black infantry (the 38th, 39th, 40th, and 41st (Colored) Infantry), who were mostly drawn from USCT veterans.

Concept note-4: -The United States Army began to organize African Americans into regimental units known as the United States Colored Troops (USCT) in 1863.