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made slavery illegal in the US
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the freedman's bureau was established by the government as a war agency that was established in 1865 to assists freed slaves in obtaining relief,land ,jobs ,fair treatment and education..
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federal law that makes everone born in the united states citizens and makes job discrimination on the basis of race illegal
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Provides equal protection for all citizens and requires due process in state action
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opposed civil rights and african americans
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a government would pardon all Confederates
as soon as that would happen, a Confederate State could form a new state government and send a representative and a senator to Congress -
passed by radical republicans
divided south into five military districts
more rights for African Americans -
an "indictment" for public official having broken the law
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gave african americans the right to vote
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major investor in railroads and the largest finacier of the unions civil war
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According to the lecture, high infant mortality rates among the African American population could be attributed to:
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it was unconstitontional
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The election of 1877 between Hayes and Tilden ended in a tie So in 1877, congress tried to break the deadlock by creating a special electoral commission to judge the votes
The Special electoral commission was made up of 7 Democrats and 8 Republicans -
a body of state laws that created racial segregation
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Homer Plessy defied a LA law segregating Railroad Cars (1890). In 1896, the US Supreme Court issued Plessy V. Ferguson which held in its notorious “Separate but Equal”