African Americans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War
a. carried out reprisals against captured slaveowners.
b. served mainly in military support units.
c. included the brave and accomplished 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, which suffered heavy casualties during the Union siege of Fort Wagner, South Carolina in 1863.
d. accounted for less than 1 percent of total Union enlistments.
e. refused to serve under white officers.
c
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Why did free blacks in the South do little to work against slavery?
a. They were subject to an elaborate system of control and surveillance. b. Most did not sympathize with the plight of slaves. c. Most lived far away from slave populations. d. They identified with free whites, not enslaved blacks.
In response to discrimination in the South, Booker T. Washington advocated:
A) integration. B) accommodation. C) revolution. D) civil rights.
The Sumerians
A) defeated the Hittites in 2600 B.C.E. B) were plagued by incessant warfare between their many city-states. C) had a complicated religion with a sophisticated belief in life after death. D) were warriors who instituted totalitarian government. E) built damns and irrigation canals along the Indus River.
Queen Isabella decreed that the people of Spain's new territories should be treated humanely
Indicate whether the statement is true or false