AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The Union
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The Confederacy
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the American Civil War, the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States led by President Abraham Lincoln. It was opposed by the secessionist Confederate States of America (CSA), informally called “the Confederacy” or “the South".
Detailed explanation-2: -The Union included the states of Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon.
Detailed explanation-3: -At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor.
Detailed explanation-4: -The strategy for the United States was to surround the territory of the South in the Anaconda Plan, blockading the Atlantic Ocean and controlling the Mississippi, to keep goods from going into or out of the South and forcing them to surrender.