Struggles Throughout History

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In this paper you will read my important points that I have chosen. The points that I have chosen were, Amendment Thirteen, The Freedman’s Bureau, The Civil Rights Act of 1866, and The Ku Klux Klan. As you read on you find why I considered this point to be so significant.
On January 31,1865, Congress passed Amendment Thirteen. This amendment was passed to abolish slavery everywhere in the United States (with the exceptions of the Border States) and give Congress the power to enforce this outcome by an appropriate legislation. After this law was passed, slave owners did not tell their slaves that they were set free. Due to the fact that the slaves were set free, this took away from the South’s economic way of living. The slaves help with the agriculture and they provided for their masters. Since they were free it was hard for their owners to adapt and take their place.
Many slaves reacted very cautiously because they were testing their boundaries of this new law. While others left their masters and went searching for their families. Since these slaves did not have anything when coming out of slavery, they needed things to provide them for their way of living. This was when Congress created the Freedman’s Bureau on March 3,1865 but did not get passed as a law until July of 1866. This Bureau was an agency that provided slaves with food and medical services. They built a number of schools and colleges. In fact, Howard University in Washington, D.C. was established. They also consulted with the old slave masters to provide employment for the freed slaves. All of these things had developed in four years.
In the year of 1866, The Civil Right s Act was passed. This law gave blacks their rights as citizens and legal equality with everyone in the country, with the exceptions of political rights. This law entitled blacks, with the same right in every state. If anyone discriminated against these blacks, they were sent ...