After the Passage of the Emancipation Proclamation

question 92

Multiple Choice

After the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation,

• A)more than one-fifth of the South's African American slaves ran away.
• B)Confederates dismissed it as a revolutionary measure aimed to spark a race war in the South.
• C)most Northerners supported Lincoln's decree.
• D)northern Democrats stoked fears about intermarriage with blacks.​
• E)All of these are correct.

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