On what basis did the US government support slavery
- a) On what basis did the U.S. government support slavery? b) What actions did the U.S government take to support slavery? Explain. c) How did slaves manage to maintain a community? d) Why did they work so hard to do so? e) Why did Lincoln feel compelled to speak to both and North and South, given his personal solution to the problem of slavery in America? f) How did northern elite’s plans for economic expansion force the South into radical opposition? g)
What evidence supports the idea that the North could not have won the war without the support of American Blacks? Explain. - How did the racism of white abolitionists reveal itself? How could a white person be both an abolitionist and a racist? Why might
Frederick Douglass have been “the most famous black man of his time”? Explain. - How were the following used as methods of controlling not only the slave population but poor whites as well?
*force
*segregation
*religion
- What is the evidence that it was dangerous to slave masters to allow poor whites and blacks to fraternize? Explain.
- Define the following:
- The Underground Railroad
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Black Codes
- Thirteenth Amendment
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction of 1863
Answer the questions based on your readings of A People’s History Of The United States – Chapter 9: SLAVERY WITHOUT SUBMISSION, EMANCIPATION WITHOUT FREEDOM (https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnslaem10.html)
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