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In 1865 Congress created the Freedman's Bureau which was for helping ease many African Americans transition from slavery to freedom.
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Free blacks rented land they worked on often times on the same land they worked as slaves. Sharecropping benefited the land owner as well as the workers. Like in post war Georgia.
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Women's Suffrage is about the right of women to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment, which granted the right for everyone to vote. Ida B Wells worked along side to help blacks get this right. In Seneca Falls, New York.
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Atlanta Compromise was so that blacks would get basic education and due process in law. Although this agreement was never written down.
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During the Great Migration many African Americans fled North away from the war torn south for a new life and new opportunities.
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After blacks moved North there was a social, cultural and artistic change in New York called the New Negro Movement.
