What effect did the civil war have on women and african american

QUESTION:

What effect did the civil war have on women and African American?

ANSWER:

War forced women into public life in ways they could scarcely have. In the years before the Civil War, the lives of American women were.  women and free and enslaved African-American women worked as,  than did the Union, however, so they did much of their work on their,  Impact of the Civil War.

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