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Freedman's Bureau
According to the article,Washington H. R. Hangen’s 6 November 1866 report documenting his appointment as Agent for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, St. Tammany and Washington Parishes, Louisiana. (Double click on image for enlarged view. -
ku klux klan formed
According to the article it say,A murky organization which came into existence and then went into oblivion leaving little trace about it. A dark organization whose members would not divulge any secrets. So protected it has been that when Congress formed an committee to investigate its past, the even voluminous reports of that investigation . -
Andersonville prison camp
(CNN) -- Enduring privations of his own as a Civil War prisoner in Georgia, Cpl. Charles H. Knox was concerned about his wife and small child back home in upstate New York. -
Fifteenth Amendment
According to the article,James Madison presented 17 amendments to the United States House of Representatives.3 Twelve were passed by Congress and sent to the states.3 By December 15, 1791, four years after the signing of the Constitution, ten articles were ratified and became known as The Bill of Rights.3 The Bill of Rights was in place but who would interpret the language in specific situations?2 -
Thirteenth Amendment
The idea behind this discriminatory policy was, to put it baldly, that Americans with English or Irish names were better people and better citizens than Americans with Italian or Greek or Polish names. It was thought that people of West European origin made better citizens than Rumanians or Yugoslavs or Ukrainians or Hungarians or Baits or Austrians. -
Fourteenth Amendment
According to the article,Civil War created. The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery forever in all of the United States; and the Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in 1870, granted all adult men the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, is the longest and most complex of the amendments and has had the most wide-ranging and controversial.
