On January 25, 1863 the Governor of Massachusetts received the authority to recruit black troops. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers was the first black regiment from the North - and also a fine fighting unit.
<span>"It presaged the full-scale organization and employment of Negro soldiers. It initiated the new Negor soldier policy of procedding not by the the parceling out of authority to selected individuals and states but by decree and direction of the War Department acting through the army. This step was the great turning point in the development of the movement to arm the Negro as a soldier."</span>
Which was an important long-term result of the Civil War?
A. A feeling of American nationalism developed.
B. Industrialism increased in the South.
C. Differences between social classes declined.
A person uses a bank loan to start and expand a restaurant business is a case in which the use of<span>credit positively affects the U.S. economy</span>
<span>William Bradfors was governor of the Plymouth colony for 30 years. He is important because he helped shape and stabilize the political institutions of the first permanent colony in New England.</span><span>
William Bradford promoted the following ideas:
</span><span>-self-governance
-religious freedom
=voting rights</span>
