History of African in the US

S.A./Union?
-Describe and explain African Americans’ enthusiasm to participate in the Civil War.
-How specifically did Pres. Lincoln strategically use African Americans to help win the Civil War for the Union?
-What is your new understanding of President Lincoln; and what is your new understanding of the President’s famous executive order – the famous “Emancipation Proclamation”?
-After exploring the issues related to the US Civil War, what questions or wonderments remain in your mind?
Assignment 1 Answer questions
-In your view, was the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) fought to end enslavement or to stop the expansion of slavery into the new and growing western territories/states?
-Describe how the following 7 Reconstruction and Reparations efforts were used to help the “freedmen” recover from the holocaust of enslavement:
A) The 1862/3 “Emancipation Proclamation”B) Gen. William T. Sherman’s Special Order 15 (“40 Acres