The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 1

Read the passage from the letter, and then answer the question.What does Mrs. Johnson know?

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C: the difference between right and wrong

Question 2

Read the next passage from the letter, and then answer the question.What was Hannah Johnson afraid might happen to her son that almost kept her from letting him go to war?

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A: She was afraid he would be captured and sold into slavery.

Question 3

Who are “they” who “have lived in idleness”?

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B: Southern slavers

Question 4

The rebels are Union soldiers✔ Confederate soldiersescaped enslaved people.

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B: ✔ Confederate soldiers

Question 5

What does Hannah Johnson want Lincoln to do?

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B: prevent Southern soldiers from selling captured African American soldiers

Question 6

According to Hannah Johnson, a great man must

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C: make difficult decisions.

Question 7

The proclamation Mrs. Johnson refers to is the

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Emancipation

Question 8

What is she afraid Lincoln might do?

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A: take back the proclamation

Question 9

Why does Hannah Johnson say the Emancipation Proclamation “will make the Angels sing” Lincoln’s praises?

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C: because he has corrected something wicked

Question 10

Why did Hannah Johnson write to President Lincoln?

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A: to make sure African Americans are treated fairly

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