They fought with great courage to save the union and end slavery forever.
They fought with great courage to save the union and end slavery forever.
They fought with great courage to save the union and end slavery forever.
African Americans fought both on the front lines as soldiers and behind the scenes as labor workers. Former slaves played an important role in the North's victory.
drugs, global warming, or the soviet union.
They sometimes grew food for the Union army
Many joined segregated Union units and fought in the military.
To improve relations between all Americans nations.
Many fought for the union. There were African American units. A good movie on this is GLORY. Many who weren't soldiers followed the troops and helped in the camps. When union troops came through an area they freed slaves they found on plantations. Many of those freed slaves stayed with the troops and had a nickname called " contraband ". This stems from an event when a confederate officer asked a union officer for the slaves that he had freed. In war contraband doesn't have to be returned so the union officer called the freed slaves contraband to keep from returning them. The name stuck through the war.
Americans reconstructed authority during the American Revolution to be able to incorporate the Confederate states into the Union without affecting their existing structure.
No, it was not manda tory for African-Americans to serve the Union Army. All African- Americans did this on their own free will.
The Union naval blockade seriously hampered the Confederate war effort
African-Americans fought mostly for the patriots in the American Revolution.