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Did African Americans gain equal rights through the Civil War?

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Answer:

United States Constitution granted emancipation

Step-by-step explanation:

After the American Civil War and the subsequent abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently been enslaved.

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