Question

Explain what impact the Civil War had on one specific group and how it changed the way people viewed them as a group in the United States.

Please make a claim and provide evidence and reasoning.

Answer 1

As a result of the Union victory in the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1865), nearly four million slaves were freed. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) granted African Americans citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) guaranteed their right to vote.

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