The answer to your question is true
France obtained control over northern Vietnam following its victory over China in the Sino-French War (1884–85). French Indochina was formed on 17 October 1887 from Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina (which together form modern Vietnam), and the Kingdom of Cambodia; Laos was added after the Franco-Siamese War in 1893.
I believe it to be Thomas Jefferson, since he became the first secretary of state
It depends on where each group lived, in the south most people saw it as a good thing towards their freedom, in the north they saw it as a massacre from the south.
I think it was to convince people to reject gradual emancipation and demand the complete and immediate abolition of slavery.
