Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements accurately describes the response of increasing numbers of enslaved African Americans in the South as the Civil War dragged on?
A) They volunteered almost exclusively to fight for the Confederacy out of fear of punishment by slave owners.
B) Almost all of them remained neutral in the conflict because the likelihood of the Confederacy winning became more and more clear.
C) Many took advantage of the war's confusion by running away, fighting, or helping to sabotage the Confederacy.
D) Most of them fled to Canada because they had little stake in the war and prized obtaining true equality as soon as possible.
E) Most of them traveled west as pioneers during the war because land prices there had become so cheap.
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