What groups wanted to remake or render society decades before the civil war?

After the Civil War, 4 million former slaves were looking for social equality and economic opportunity. It wasn't clear initially whether they would enjoy full-fledged citizenship or would be subjugated by the white population.

In the 1860s, it was the Republican Party in Washington — the home of former abolitionists — that sought to grant legal rights and social equality to African-Americans in the South. The Republicans — then dubbed radical Republicans — managed to enact a series of constitutional amendments and reconstruction acts granting legal equality to former slaves — and giving them access to federal courts if their rights were violated.

The two agricultural contributions that are common to both Northeast Woodland Indians and Southeast Indians are the following: They used a creative method to maintain the fertility of the land and they cultivated the “three sisters” crops of corn, beans, and squash.

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