FLASHCARD [H]: Civil War: A Defining Moment in U.S. History [Text]

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Which of the following statements BEST represents Abraham Lincoln’s approach toward slavery in the article? Lincoln did not care about enslaved people, but thought freeing slaves would win the Civil War., Lincoln did not want slavery to spread and thought emancipation would help win the war., Lincoln disagreed with people enslaving others, so he started the Civil War to end slavery., Lincoln disagreed with slavery and wanted slaveholders to be punished for starting the war.

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Lincoln did not want slavery to spread and thought emancipation would help win the war.

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Which of the following sentences from the article BEST reflects the article’s central idea? Options: War broke out in April 1861, as the Confederates insisted on their right to leave the Union and the loyal states refused to allow them to go. They created a democratic republic that ensured its citizens’ freedoms while also reassuring the South that individual states would have the power to keep slaves. A major milepost on the way to war was the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision, which said that slaves could not win their freedom simply by crossing into a free state. Lincoln and the victorious Republicans had promised not to interfere with slavery in states where it already existed.

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War broke out in April 1861, as the Confederates insisted on their right to leave the Union and the loyal states refused to allow them to go.

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Does the sentence "No group was more directly affected than the four million slaves, who emerged from the struggle with their freedom." support the main idea of the article? Why or why not?

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Yes, because it describes a significant outcome of the Civil War.

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How did the article develop the idea that emancipation was a significant result of the Civil War?

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by exploring how slavery affected economics and politics