PART B: Which section from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A.
“After the Rebels fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln almost immediately called out state militias; expanded the Union’s Army and Navy; blockaded southern ports...” ( Paragraph 12)
B.
“As most politicians of his era, he believed that the slaves should be encouraged to ‘voluntarily’ leave the United States and establish their own colony abroad — perhaps in Africa or the Caribbean.” ( Paragraph 16)
C.
“That provision was emphatically rejected by a group of freed slaves that Lincoln briefed on this subject on August 14, 1862, and it provoked a blistering personal attack on the president by Frederick Douglass...” ( Paragraph 19)
D.
“Lincoln justified his Emancipation Proclamation with the need to weaken the Confederacy and save the Union. The Emancipation accomplished that, and more.” ( Paragraph 24)