By late 1863 and 1864 war was not looking good for Confederacy -Union naval blockade became v effective and likelihood of British aid vanished -armies sulfide from defeats in Vicksburg and Gettysburg in 1863 and Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia in 1864 -white southerners began to discuss possibility of arming black men -some newspapers advocated it -General Patrick Cleburne recommended enlisting slaves and promising freedom if they remained loyal -argued policy would gain recognition and aid from Britain and disrupt union military efforts to recruit black southerners -prospect of arming slaves and free black men appealed most white southerners -Pres Davis said no speaking of that -most white southerners convinced that to arm slaves it defied assumptions on which southern society was based -black ppl were inferior, and proper status was to be slaves -Civil war for white southerners was a war to prevent the abolition of slavery -now they were saying to abolish slavery to save the southern nation -south moved toward employing black troops -General Robert E. Lee was critical to determining whether the Confederacy would decide to arm black men -no southerner was more revered or respected -Lee had freed nearly 200 slaves in keeping with instructions of his father in law will which said they should be free 5 years after his death in 1857 -Lee announced he favored both enrolling and emancipating black troops -Congress voted to enlist 300,000 black men between ages of 18 an 45 -receive same pay, equipment and supplies as whites but those who were slaves would not be free unless owner consented and the state where they served agreed to emancipation -didnt really help, Lee surrendered
Based on the graph attached below, we can observe there is a sharp increase from the 1850s. The reason behind that increase is the Act of Consolidation in 1854, which the borders until that time expanded and resulted with the modern borders of Philadelphia. Indeed, the correct answer is an increase in the number of housing unit.
