Answer:
The steps that led to the recruitment of black troops in the Civil War are as follows:
- Military establishment decreeing that war should be fought by white men in 1861
- The congress than decreeing that the war would be fought for the Union and not for abolishing slavery
- Lincoln overruling his generals and Cabinet.
- Black leaders making it a point to enroll regiment of black soldiers, which was refused by Lincoln and his cabinet
- Leading to fear among the masses of a rising slave rebellion
- In order to ensure protection from political attacks on slavery and support the armies on the field
- Black troops enrolled.