Explain how much progress had been made toward guaranteeing civil rights for all Americans, and especially Black men and women, by 1870?
In his Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln predicted that a Union victory in the Civil War would lead to a “new birth of freedom”. If that happened, it was largely through three constitutional amendments between 1865 and 1870. In no more than a sentence or two each, summarize the essential provisions of … Read more