Which describes southerners' reaction to president lincoln's issuance of the emancipation proclamation? a. they knew that defeat in the war would mean the complete end of slavery. b. they saw it as a sign that the north was near defeat and the south would win the war. c. they believed that a negotiated peace with the north was now possible. d. they felt confident that england would now join the confederate side.

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was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south