Lincoln's 1857 Emancipation Proclamation warned that the issue of slavery could destroy the nation.
Answer: Option A
<u>Explanation:</u>
This proclamation was given by Abraham Lincoln when the civil war was in its third year. The proclamation changed the status of almost 3.5 million slaves. The slaves were freed post the proclamation.
Slavery was a major issue that had led to the civil war and this proclamation changed the manner in which slavery was viewed.
The proclamation made freeing the slaves an explicit goal of the war. The proclamation did not lead to immediate abolition of slavery but ensured that most of the slaves in the Union were freed.
Answer:
people of mixed black, spanish, french, and indian descent
Explanation:
The correct option is D
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the most prominent leader of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj, for which he practiced nonviolent civil disobedience, as well as pacifist, politician, thinker and Indian Hindu lawyer. He received from Rabindranath Tagoreel the honorary name of Mahatma.
From 1919 he belonged openly to the front of the Indian nationalist movement. He established novel methods of social struggle such as the hunger strike and in his programs he rejected the armed struggle and carried out a preaching of the ahimsa (nonviolence) as a means to resist British rule. He defended and promoted widely the total fidelity to the dictates of the conscience, even reaching civil disobedience if necessary; In addition, he fought for the return to the old Hindu traditions. He corresponded with León Tolstoy, who influenced his concept of nonviolent resistance. He was the inspiration for the march of the salt, a demonstration across the country against the taxes to which this product was subject.
<span>After the vote was finally won in 1920, the organized Women's Rights Movement continued on in several directions.</span>
