Large racial and gender wage gaps in the U.S. remain, even as they have narrowed in some cases over the years. Among full- and part-time workers in the U.S., blacks in 2015 earned just 75% as much as whites in median hourly earnings and women earned 83% as much as men.
I’m pretty sure the answer is the first option, but I could be wrong
Answer:
It had a bigger population, a better industrial base, the north was more richer and had a government
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The Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators
