The Confederacy enlisted slaves into their army as fighting soldiers
a. only a month before the war ended.
b. at the beginning of the war.
c. as a response to the Emancipation Proclamation.
d. in lieu of forcing tens of thousands of slaves into involuntary labor which included building fortifications and supplying armies.
e. in recognition that the idea of slavery was wrong.
Question 2
The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was
a. an isolated incident of protest against British rule in the American colonies.
b. directed only at the British East India Company.
c. the provocation against the British authorities to enact and implement more coercive and authoritarian laws governing the colonies.
d. enthusiastically supported by friends of colonists in America who had economic interests in the colonies.
e. the result of the Intolerable Acts.
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