History A-Level
Civil Rights and emancipation
What Civil Rights and emancipation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The 1863 Emancipation Proclamation shifted the war's focus to abolishing slavery and forced the federal government to consider the future status of freedmen.
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- 2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877 – Early Reconstruction, 1865–1867 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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