African Americans serving in the Union Army were not paid the same as their white counterparts because
A) the War Department was starved for funds.
B) a backlash from white troops was feared if blacks were paid the same.
C) they were not expected to see actual combat.
D) President Lincoln thought that African-American troops were inferior.
E) they were seen as enslaved labor.
B
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How did black interpretations of the war and its connection to slavery compare to white northerner sentiment on the same subject?
A) Blacks did not see the war as necessary to wage compared to northern whites. B) Blacks failed to understand the profound connections between the war and the expansion of slavery while northern whites quickly understood it. C) Blacks rejected Lincoln's use of force against southern white resistance to federal law while northern whites eagerly embraced it. D) Blacks compared to northern whites understood early in the war that the fate of slavery was connected to the war's outcome.
In 1513, Ponce de Leon led explorations into modern-day
a. california b. new Mexico c. Texas d. Florida e. Mississippi
In her influential book, Woman and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gilman reinforced this idea.
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In the 1940s several southern states, including North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, established law schools for their black citizens
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.