Question

I am having trouble making sense of these history passages.

Answer 1

Chapter CXLVIII
An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so described by natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every other ...
What does the phrase Indian title has been extinguished describe in the context of the document? (5 points)
Select one:
a. Land the Native Americans had been granted
b. Land that was taken away from Native Americans
c. Land that was not valuable to the Native Americans
d. Land that had been organized by the government

Answer 2

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...
Why was this document written? (5 points)
Select one:
a. to free enslaved people
b. to issue orders to government officials
c. to declare that slavery was morally wrong
d. to punish rebellious slaves

Answer 3

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ...
Who will enforce this document? (5 points)
Select one:
a. enslaved people in the United States
b. state government officials in the United States
c. people in designated parts of the United States
d. soldiers and sailors of the United States

Answer 4

state government officials in the united states

Answer 5

to declare that slavery was morally wrong