According to the Emancipation Proclamation, emancipation would not go into effect on January 1, 1863 if
A) enough Southern slaveholders freed their slaves on their own.
B) the Confederacy surrendered Richmond.
C) the seceded states rejoined the Union.
D) the Border States left the Union.
E) Britain joined the war effort on the side of the South.
C
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How might Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated?
A) African Americans might have gained political and economic rights sooner, since Lincoln was a strong supporter of equal rights for all Americans. B) Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan would not have developed in the South and African Americans would not have been violently attacked. C) Women would also have gained the right to vote, since Lincoln would have encouraged this in the Fifteenth Amendment. D) Lincoln would have refused to allow any former Confederates to participate in the Republican government. E) Since Lincoln favored more leniency toward the South, readmission of southern states might have happened more rapidly.
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a. Masters were sometimes wary of religion’s effect on their slaves, and insisted that their slaves attend the masters’ own churches. b. African Americans identified with the biblical story of Exodus, and saw themselves as God’s chosen people enduring an unjust form of bondage. c. Slaves’ spirituals conveyed not only a spirit of resistance but also at times covert plans for active resistance. d. By the second quarter of the nineteenth century, African folk traditions had disappeared from black religion.