As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Question

A) Republican politicians vigorously defended the cause of racial justice and black equality.
B) the Republican party refused to renominate Lincoln in 1864.
C) most white northerners surrendered their comforting belief in black inferiority.
D) Democrats made significant political gains in the Northwest by capitalizing on voters' racist fears.

Answer 1

A. I just finished US history class at my college.

Answer 2

None of these are true. Racial justice and black equality did not become a major political movement until the 1960s. If by this you were considering the Reconstruction Period, this was more of political power consolidation affirming the power of the federal government over the States as the federal government replaced duly elected State Legislatures with hand picked replacements. An act not allowed by the Constitution. This was confirmed in the case of Texas v. White in 1869, not by the Constitution or legislative enactment but by right of conquest.

Of course the Republican Party nominated President Lincoln for a second term.

The belief in white superiority over blacks continued far after the war in both the North and the South. The Northern riots of the 1860s confirm this point of view.

Democrats made political gains after the Reconstruction Period as whites again took over their legislatures by legal election.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a Presidential Order designed to gain political power in the North. It freed no one North or South.

I suspect that your teachers will not agree with these facts because the last thing they do is to read actual history of the times.

Answer 3

E. Lincoln made a punitive (but unenforceable) gesture toward the Confederacy, ordering the freeing of all slaves within those states in rebellion against the Union, and taking no action to free those held in loyal states (Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, particularly). Whatever the beliefs Lincoln held, he did not free the slaves within the Union, and was unable to free those in the CSA, as it claimed to be a sovereign state not subject to his authority. The Thirteenth Amendment, which did outlaw slavery, was ratified on December 18, 1865 - eight months after Lincoln's death.

Answer 4

Nothing it was a worthless piece of paper.
Because the south was legal country and u
can not issue a thing like that. It would be like The'
USA now telling England to get rid of your Queen
Elizabeth

Answer 5

I believe the main point of this was to free all Slaves

Answer 6

what is this a summer school quiz? I would suggest to read your book. If I had to guess, B would be my view. One of his top generals ran against him.

Answer 7

That is true. I'm not sure about D though.