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Assignment 1 Answer questions

-After the Republican President Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, what specific steps did some southern states take which precipitated/caused the Federal Government in 1861 to start a civil war to save the U.S.A./Union?

-Describe and explain African Americans’ enthusiasm to participate in the Civil War.

-How specifically did Pres. Lincoln strategically use African Americans to help win the Civil War for the Union?

-What is your new understanding of President Lincoln; and what is your new understanding of the President’s famous executive order – the famous “Emancipation Proclamation”?

-After exploring the issues related to the US Civil War, what questions or wonderments remain in your mind?

Assignment 1 Answer questions

-In your view, was the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) fought to end enslavement or to stop the expansion of slavery into the new and growing western territories/states?

-Describe how the following 7 Reconstruction and Reparations efforts were used to help the “freedmen” recover from the holocaust of enslavement:

A) The 1862/3 “Emancipation Proclamation”
B) Gen. William T. Sherman’s Special Order 15 (“40 Acres & a Mule”),
C) 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
D) Freedman’s Bureau,
E) Charlotte Forten (Grimke),
F) African American elected officials (approximately 1,465)
G) American Missionary Association

-What was the political compromise which ended the Reconstruction period (1865-1877); and how was the federal government’s cancellation of Reconstruction in 1877, a betrayal and a set-back for African Americans?

-Relative to the opportunities and betrayal of Reconstruction period, what are you left wondering about?