The Confiscation Act of 1861

question 59

Multiple Choice

The Confiscation Act of 1861

• A) gave Union troops the authority to seize Confederate property.
• B) abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and the western territories.
• C) saw the Confederate government claim the right to seize free blacks in the South.
• D) declared that slaves used by Confederate states in the war effort were free.
• E) empowered banks in the Union to freeze the financial assets of all slaveholders.

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