Question

1. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed all slaves, but many continued in slavery until after the war. Why would many in the South ignore the Proclamation?

2: Who was the first state to secede (leave) the Union? How was this action viewed by Lincoln?

3: Who was Robert E. Lee? Why was he important during the Civil War?

4: Who was Ulysses S. Grant? Why was he important during the Civil War?


5: How did the assassination of Abraham Lincoln affect Reconstruction? please respond to each question with 2 sentences

Answer 1

Answer(s):

1st: A desire for good farmland caused many colonists to defy the proclamation. Others merely resented the royal contraints on trade and migration.

2nd: Answer(s):

• South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union on December 20, 1860
• Lincoln claimed that they had no right, he opposed the secession

3rd: Answer(s):

• Robert Edward Lee was an American Confederate general.
• Lee commanded the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War, and ultimately lead all the Confederate armies.

4th: Answer(s):

• Ulysses S. Grant was an American military officer.
• Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

5th: Abraham Lincoln's assassination was an untimely event that slowed down the process of reconstruction after the Civil War. The assassination increased the north's r towards the south.

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