In 1870, Revels argued before the Senate that "the people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill". Which of the following pieces of evidence would best support that statement?

By the end of the Civil War, black men made up nearly ten percent of the Union Army.

At the beginning of the Civil War, the North produced ninety percent of the nation's manufactured goods.

Prior to the Civil War, cotton grown by slaves accounted for over fifty percent of all U. S. exports.

Slave labor produced most of the world's consumer products in the nineteenth century.

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Nikolai Walter

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8 April, 20:45

In 1870, Revels argued before the Senate that "the people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill". Which of the following pieces of evidence would best support that statement?

By the end of the Civil War, black men made up nearly ten percent of the Union Army.

At the beginning of the Civil War, the North produced ninety percent of the nation's manufactured goods.

Prior to the Civil War, cotton grown by slaves accounted for over fifty percent of all U. S. exports.

Slave labor produced most of the world's consumer products in the nineteenth century.

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Baby Cakes · Answer 1

I would say the first statement ("By the end of the Civil War, black men made up nearly ten percent of the Union Army"), because B is irrelevant and neither C nor D is something that would specifically indebt the North