Reference no: EM133490431

Question

1. Describe the attitudes and approaches of President Abraham Lincoln, Congress, and the Union military toward slavery and slave refugees in the early years of the war. How were their evolving policies and practices shaped by blacks' actions?

2. How did the war's aims shift from the defeat of the rebellion and the preservation of the Union to include emancipation? How might things have been different had the Confederate states responded differently to the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

3. How did the enlistment of black soldiers both challenge and reinforce existing racial hierarchies?

4. How did the Emancipation Proclamation promote black equality? In what ways did it fall short?

5. Describe the various contributions of African Americans to the Union war effort - both in the military and on the home front. How did their efforts further the war's aims and their own hopes of achieving freedom and citizenship rights?