How did the Civil War expand opportunities for African Americans?

How did the Civil War expand opportunities for African Americans

Based on the reading material about the Voices of Freedom, answer the question: How did the Civil War expand opportunities for African Americans? How did the war help to further that anti-slavery movement?

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The war helped many of the African American the cycle that they were in, that is rural poverty. The black people seized the opportunity and joined the military in large numbers, this allowed them to escape the great depression decade and the tenant farming that was in Midwest and also in the South though the armed forces were segregated.  The black enlistees…

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