Which two central ideas are found in both passages?


People who were newly free continued to suffer after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.


Some Northerners and some Southern whites offered support and aid to formerly enslaved people.


The North and the South continued to work against one another following the Thirteenth Amendment.


The Thirteenth Amendment was only one step on the long journey toward freedom for formerly enslaved people.


The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments worked together to establish the rights of African Americans.

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The two central ideas found in both passages are:

  1. The Thirteenth Amendment was only one step on the long journey toward freedom for formerly enslaved people.
  2. Some Northerners and some Southern whites offered support and aid to formerly enslaved people.

These ideas highlight the continued struggles for freedom and assistance faced by formerly enslaved individuals after formal emancipation.