The reconstruction act, allowed blacks to vote and hold political office. is one way government attempted to give blacks the rights of full citizenship !

the reconstruction act gave african American USA citizenship.

The reconstruction act of 1867, was drawn to provide a process for readmitting southern states into the union after the civil war, during the Johnson administration. it provided former slaves, Blacks national citizenship. the right to vote for blacks was provided by the fifteen ammendment in 1870.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

the answer should be founding brothers. i hope i you!