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@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ employed?
- "Freedmen's Bureau" (1865-1870) helped connect family members and
developed black freedmen's schools and work.
- Government authorized giving/renting confiscated land to
- freedmen, but many officials corrupt.
+ freedmen, but many officials corrupt.
- So whites used contracts with freedmen to maintain their own
power.
- Southern whites pressured Congress into shuttering Freedmen's
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ employed?
Amendments ratified by all states (including by Southern states, which
were required to ratify on condition of admission into the union):
-13th Amendment (1865)
+13th Amendment (1865)
- Abolished slavery
14th Amendment (1868)
- Guaranteed citizenship to natural US citizens, except Natives
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Jim Crow laws
1896:
LA passes separate cars act, requiring equal but separate
- racial segregation
+ racial segregation
"Necessary to prevent danger of friction of interaction between
races"