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    Emancipation and Reconstruction

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    The Civil War brought emancipation, and during Reconstruction the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments briefly granted citizenship and voting rights, enabling the election of Black officials.
    OCR · Period Study: The Making of America, 1789–1900

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