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Earn +20 ptsQ: Why did Union General Benjamin Butler declare enslaved African American refugees to be contraband or captured war supplies?
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How did the 54th Massachusetts regiments attack on the fort Wagner affect public opinion about enslaved African American soldiers?
because emancipation proclamation granted them thoses rights
How did enslaved persons help the Union?
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How did enslaved people help the union?
slaves ran away from plantation to join the Union.
Why were northerners and southerners willing to fight in the civil war?
because they want the people enslaved in the south to be free...
What Lincoln hoped and fought for during the civil war?
During the American Civil War, the President of the Union (i.e., the United States), Abraham Lincoln, had one persistently pursued goal, namely, preservation of the Union. As the war progressed, the abolition of slavery became another desperately sought goal of Lincoln and many other Northerners, not to overlook many of the enslaved Americans in the South.
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