Question: How could you describe the free black situation in the Southern states?
Answer and Reason: So there were many free colored people in the south. They were able to do things they weren't able to do before. But when the civil war came around 3 million colored people stayed out and didn't help, expecially the confederates.
To maintain U.S. influence in Latin America. To warn Europe to stay out of south America and to declare the united states rights to intervene in south America