Reducing black illiteracy by roughly 20 percent.
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African Americans were freed from slavery and one of the goals of Reconstruction was to help them adjust to living as free men. The federal Freedman's bureau was set up to help ex-slaves find food, housing and jobs and provide some education and medical aid.
SCALAWAG was a post civil war, reconstruction era term of insult for a white southerner who supported reconstruction efforts. The word comes down through the English language with various meanings over time, such as "farm laborer", "disreputable fellow", "habitual jokster", and early definition uses it as "undersized or worthless animal".
Jamestown was founded in 1607. The colony prevailed although there were problems in the early years.
The U.S. Mint never made silver certificates because the Mint only strikes coins. Paper money is made by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The last silver certificates were printed in the early 1960s, but all were in the 1957 series.
President Abraham Lincoln's mission was to reunite the divided United States of America and to put an end to slavery, and he succeeded in both goals, at the cost of his life and the lives of many other human beings.