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- Lincoln was initially not concerned with the issue of slavery as his paramount concerns were to keep the border slave states in the Union and to build the broadest base of support in the North for the war effort.Group of answer choices
- What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?
- The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,
- Government involvement in the economy decreased during the Civil War.
- Over the course of the war, Confederate troops were better supplied than Union troops.
- The KKK was founded in 1866 as a secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.
- Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was
- Novels such as The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby most clearly reflect what literary theme?
- Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war
- Which of the following groups was a major target of the New York City draft riots?
- In President Andrew Johnson's view, African-Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction?Group of answer choices
- The civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the "Second Reconstruction."
- Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction
- Which of the following was an indirect result of the work of Einstein and Curie?
- Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent.
- During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators.
- What activity made the postemancipation experience in the United States unique from other societies and became central to the former slaves' desire for empowerment and equality?
- increased taxes, war bonds, national banking act, greenbacks
- draft system, bounties, personal desire to fight
- more states more people, more capital more factories, more skilled laborers, more supplies more munitions, better transportation, larger merchant marine, larger naval force