solved Assignment 1 Answer questions-After the Republican President Abraham Lincoln was

Assignment 1 Answer questions-After the Republican President Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, what specific steps did some southern states take which precipitated/caused the Federal Government in 1861 to start a civil war to save the U.S.A./Union?-Describe and explain African Americans’ enthusiasm to participate in the Civil War. -How specifically did Pres. Lincoln strategically use African Americans to help win the Civil War for the Union? -What is your new understanding of President Lincoln; and what is your new understanding of the President’s famous executive order – the famous “Emancipation Proclamation”? -After exploring the issues related to the US Civil War, what questions or wonderments remain in your mind? Assignment 1 Answer questions-In your view, was the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) fought to end enslavement or to stop the expansion of slavery into the new and growing western territories/states?-Describe how the following 7 Reconstruction and Reparations efforts were used to help the “freedmen” recover from the holocaust of enslavement: A) The 1862/3 “Emancipation Proclamation”B) Gen. William T. Sherman’s Special Order 15 (“40 Acres & a Mule”), C) 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, D) Freedman’s Bureau, E) Charlotte Forten (Grimke),F) African American elected officials (approximately 1,465) G) American Missionary Association-What was the political compromise which ended the Reconstruction period (1865-1877); and how was the federal government’s cancellation of Reconstruction in 1877, a betrayal and a set-back for African Americans? -Relative to the opportunities and betrayal of Reconstruction period, what are you left wondering about?