RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Slavery was not the main cause of the war.
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God favored the north to win the conflict.
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The spread of slavery into the territories caused the war.
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The south should not be punished for disrupting the Union.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which statement accurately describes Abraham Lincoln’s view of slavery when he was first elected president? He would allow slavery only in border states and the western territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -We often associate the Civil War with the end of slavery-and for good reason. But Lincoln’s primary goal in going to war was to save the Union, slavery or not. The Emancipation Proclamation changed the equation.
Detailed explanation-4: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, announcing, “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious areas “are, and henceforward shall be free."