Trace the shifting perspectives on slavery in the North during the course of the war among Lincoln's administration, the military leadership, and the public.
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Which of the following is a correct statement about the effort to colonize free African Americans in Africa?
A) The rate of colonization was far too low to be effective. B) American blacks found the cultures of their new lands very familiar. C) All blacks supported colonization, and looked forward to moving to Africa. D) Colonization occurred only in North Africa.
Treatment of enslaved Africans in Brazil was especially harsh because slaveowners
A) were psychotic racists intent upon the extermination of black people. B) coldly calculated that they could double their profits by working slaves to death. C) greatly feared Africans, who far outnumbered the tiny Portuguese slave-holding elite. D) were ignorant of other ways to increase labor productivity.
What power system for machinery existed before steam?
A. Wind B. Nuclear C. Solar D. Water
Which of these best describes the political culture of the 1780s?
a. more fragmented than before the Revolution b. sharing a commitment to a strong, centralized national government c. committed to a written constitution d. sharing a commitment to republicanism but lack of agreement on how to resolve tensions