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Quiz for Document 15–2: Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. How did this anonymous former slave in New Orleans view Union and Confederate men?

Whereas Confederates were white supremacists, Union men believed in racial equality.

While Southerners were uneducated and poor, Union men showed class and learning.

Southern men wanted him to work the plantation; Union men wanted him to work the battlefield.

Confederates saw blacks as their enemies; Union men embraced them as political allies.

2. What were the three “classes” fighting for, according to the former slave?

One class fought for slaves, the other for the Union, and the third for liberty.

The southern class fought for states’ rights, the Union for a strong economy, and the slaves to punish their masters.

The Union soldiers and slaves fought out of love for Abraham Lincoln while the South fought because they hated him.

All three classes fought for the right to claim and settle lands in the western frontier.

3. Which of the following was a reason the former slave thought black men should fight in the war?

To steal crops and goods from the neighboring plantations

To assert themselves as a free people

To take revenge on their masters

To challenge racist Union soldiers