RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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to allow someone to vote
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to free someone from slavery
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to make someone a slave
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to ban someone from voting
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Detailed explanation-1: -: to free from restraint, control, or the power of another. especially : to free from bondage. emancipated the slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."
Detailed explanation-3: -Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing enslaved people by their enslavers.
Detailed explanation-4: -That changed on September 22, 1862, when President Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that enslaved people in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be declared free.
Detailed explanation-5: -Emancipation is an act by which a person who was once under the authority of another is set free from that authority. In modern times, this is generally referencing a minor. Historically, this would also include slaves.