Question

Northerners refused to allow blacks to join the Union army at the start of the war because they believed they could not fight. true false

Answer 1

Answer:

the answer is....................... true

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

True

Explanation:

Union officers who believed that black soldiers were not as skilled or as brave as white soldiers were. By this logic, they thought that African Americans were better suited for jobs as carpenters, cooks, guards, scouts and teamsters.

Even as they fought to end slavery in the Confederacy, African-American Union soldiers were fighting against another injustice as well. The U.S. Army paid black soldiers $10 a week.

By the time the war ended in 1865, about 180,000 black men had served as soldiers in the U.S. Army.