Answer:
Give an example of how politicians have clouded the issue of the cause of the Civil War?
Explanation:
<u><em>Contrary to the widespread idea that abolition was one of the reasons why the Northerners responded to the war</em></u>, <u>Sutherland believes that, at the beginning, slavery was the least serious problem</u>.
<u>"It was not until the middle of the war, and for a variety of political, military and diplomatic reasons, that abolition joined the main cause of the war in northern thought, which was always the preservation of the Union. , many northerners opposed to fight for the abolition and they did not have intentions to defend the racial justice "</u>, <em><u>maintains</u></em>.
<u><em>Silber assures that although some consider today that the slaves</em></u> <u>"fought in defense of the 'rights of the states' of the south, in fact they were always explicit in that they fought to maintain the slavery and a system of white supremacy"</u>.
<span>B) Supported progressive reforms for the working class, including a minimum wage and an eight hour workday.
In an 1890 article in the Locomotive Firemen's Magazine, Debs said: "</span>The eight-hour question is up for debate, and the discussion will
proceed until the demand that eight hours shall constitute a day’s
work will he granted. It is a righteous demand." [Debs was organizer of the American Railway Union.]
Incidentally, Eugene Debs was in favor of women's rights and greater equality for blacks. In regard to the racial prejudice displayed by many white persons, Debs wrote: "M<span>y observation is that the less real ground there is for such indignant assertion of self -superiority, the more passionately it is proclaimed."</span>
