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History of Freedmen 1. After the Civil War, the United States had to deal with the question on what to do about the status of the Freedmen of the South. Many people had different views and opinions on what should have been done. One of the extreme alternatives which could have occurred, is the Freedmen should be given full political, economic and social rights. People such as Frederick Douglas, radical republicans and obviously the Freedmen themselves …

…as equal the whites are, even in this day. On the other hand, if one were to compare what the policy had been before the civil war, I do believe that they were partially successful in what was desired to achieve. If Lincoln had not been assassinated, I do also think that more actions would have been taken and that the southerners would not have been let off the hook as easily as they were.