First Manassas (the First Battle of Bull Run) was important because:
A) the Northerners accomplished an easy victory, which guaranteed their triumph in the Civil War.
B) the Union soldiers proved that they would never retreat from Southern aggression.
C) it stripped both the northerners and southerners of their assumptions about an easy war.
D) the Union used African American soldiers for the first time.
E) it gave Lincoln the advantage he wanted before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
C
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