Comprehension:
In modern times, Abraham Lincoln stands as the model of a compassionate statesman. He showed this quality not only in striving for the emancipation of the American blacks, but in the dignity with which he conducted the American Civil War. Lincoln did not fancy himself as a liberator. He thought it would be better for all if emancipation was a gradual process spread over many years. He proposed compensation for slave owners in U.S., bonds and grants for the rehabilitation of the blacks - ‘colonisation’ as they called it. But fate was to deem otherwise. The haste with which the South wanted to break away from the union with the North, compelled him to move faster than he expected, perhaps more than most men of his time had thought through the issue of slavery. ‘We must free the slaves’, he said, ‘or be ourselves subdued’. ‘Before reading, the first draft of Proclamation of Emancipation, he told his colleagues. ‘In giving freedom to the slaves, we assure freedom to the free.’
On 22nd September 1862 Lincoln set his hand on the Proclamation of Emancipation declaring that on the first day of January1863, all persons held as slaves within any state ‘shall be then, and forever free.’ Lincoln’s revolution for slavery left him without any moral indignation or passion against slave owners. The guilt of slave owners, he felt, should be shared by the whole country of North and the South for it seemed to him that everyone in the nation was an accomplice in perpetuating that system. To have whipped up any hatred against slave owners would, to him, have been an act of malice.
What term is used in the passage for ‘Rehabilitation of the blacks’
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Colonisation
The passage says Lincoln proposed "bonds and grants for the rehabilitation of the blacks - 'colonisation' as they called it". The word in quotation marks is the term used at that time for this plan.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Compensation — Incorrect. Wrong link: compensation (payment for a loss) was proposed for the slave owners, not for the rehabilitation of the blacks.
Option 2: Liberation — Incorrect. Wrong focus: liberation (setting free) is the aim of emancipation itself; the passage does not use it as the name of the plan for rehabilitation.
Option 4: Indignation — Incorrect. Wrong part of the passage: indignation (anger at something unfair) appears where the passage says Lincoln felt no "moral indignation" against slave owners.