Question 8 • Mad 2017 Phy Sci B -33 SS
People freed from slavery faced major barriers even after emancipation. Many lacked money, land, and other resources needed to build secure lives; they also encountered efforts to prevent them from voting and exercising other rights. Enslaved families had often been separated, so many people searched for lost relatives. D is not correct because the federal government did grant civil rights through measures such as the Reconstruction amendments, even though those rights were often blocked or violated in practice.
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