Central Europe.its in the name
Changes: Constitutional end to slavery and granted citizenship and voting rights.
Continuities: Blacks continued to work on plantation lands doing much the same work as before 1865. They were segregated from whites and often were not given the right to vote.
It was a loose confederacy but I don't know where it was formed
Answer:
First blank: "did not"
Second blank: "'with all deliberate speed'"
Third blank: "delay"