What is the most important reason for citing a source when quoting it directly?

Answer,

To give credit to the source

Explanation

-Citing a source means to show, within the body of a given text, that the writer took words, ideas, figures, images, etc. from another  source.

-It is important to cite sourses you used in your research for several reasons ;

To show the reader that proper research was done by listing all the sources used to get informationTo avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authorsTo allow the reader to track down the sources used by citing them accurately in the paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference list

African americans at the time just came out of slavery and needed money to provide for there families. so they joined for the money mainly.

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