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The Federal Government freed them.
The Federal government was not involved in the Jim Crow laws. Those laws were enacted by the former Confederate states.
Reconstruction refers to the re-building of the United States into one country.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution were pushed through before the former Confederate states could object to them. These amendments ended slavery, expanded the power of the Federal Government, and gave voting rights to former slaves.
The Federal government (mis)led the newly-freed slaves to believe that they would receive land and other resources - "forty acres and a mule." Also, after Federal administrators left the former Confederate States in 1877, white southerners regained control, denied the vote and other civil rights to blacks, and legalized segregation in schools and other public places.
A + Former Confederate Soldiers could serve in the new state government.
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The ideas regarding reconstruction in the South was to, in the minds of many, a fair and harsh set of laws and regulations. What was not planned was the return of political control of Southern states by neo-Confederate politicians. As time moved on, white racists gained control of many former Confederate states. This did not bode well for former slaves.
his grant of amnesty to former Confederate soldiers
After the US Civil War had ended, former Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet traveled to Washington DC to follow up on the written application for a pardon from the US government. Due to the significant war operations Longstreet made as a high ranking Confederate general, he was required to file an appeal for an official pardon. His actions against the US government were a serious breach of loyalty he once had as a West Point graduate (USMA ) and the oath he had taken when he was a Federal officer.
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For the rest of their lives, unless the former president is holding an appointed or elected position in the Federal Government or the government of the District of Columbia and pays more than a 'nominal fee.'