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Descrimination
discrimination
1. The federal government attempted to use many laws to protect the rights of the newly
freed slaves, such as the Civil rights Act of 1866, which gave African Americans the right
of citizenship and forbade other states from passing their own discriminatory laws. This
brought on the Black codes, which restricted much of the African American lives dictating
where they were legally allowed to go and designated places they should be in. The
fifteenth amendment was also passed, which states that no one can be kept from voting
despite their "race", color or past servitude. It seems to nt wanted to lay down the basic
rights for
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