Emancipation Answers

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Read the passage from the letter, and then answer the questions.What does Mrs. Johnson know?

A
The difference between educated and uneducated people
B
The difference between “colored” and white people
C
The difference between right and wrong
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Who are “they” who are proving themselves to be men?

A
white Union soldiers
B
Southern slavers
C
African Americans
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Read the next passage from the letter, and then answer the question.What was Hannah Johnson afraid might happen to her son that almost kept her from letting him go to war?

A
She was afraid he would be captured and sold into slavery.
B
She was afraid he would be killed in battle.
C
She was afraid he would be forced to fight for the South.
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Who are “they” who have lived in idleness?

A
Northern soldiers
B
Southern slavers
C
Southern enslaved people
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Choose the right phrase to complete the sentence.The rebels are .

A
Union soldiers
B
Confederate soldiers
C
escaped enslaved people
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Why does Mrs. Johnson say the proclamation “will make the Angels sing” Lincoln’s praises?

A
because he has allowed slavery to spread
B
because he has let Southern states leave the Union
C
because he has helped to end slavery in America
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What does Mrs. Johnson want Lincoln to do?

A
stop Southern soldiers from working in state prisons
B
stop Southern soldiers from selling captured African American soldiers
C
stop African American soldiers from going to prison
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What is she afraid Lincoln might do?

A
take back the proclamation
B
put an end to slavery
C
lose the Civil War

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