Answer both of the following essay questions. When it is appropriate to use quotations or paraphrase from your text materials, be sure to cite your sources.
Each of the essays you write should be approximately 500 words (2 typed, double-spaced pages).
1. Identify the various ways in which women and blacks participated in the war effort.
2. Discuss Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction and analyze the opposition to it among various Northerners.