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A) a massacre of unarmed Vietnamese Villagers by US troops
<u>My Lai was named one of the most horrible massacres against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. It happened on March 16, 1968</u>, a company of American soldiers brutally murdered the majority of people in the village of My Lai. More than 500 people were counted dead.
It was primarily the "Reconstruction Act" that forced states to accept the Fourteenth Amendment in order to join the Union, since this led to a military oversight of the Southern states immediately after the Civil War.
• Federal govt did not limit immigration during this time period
• Needed workers to fill job vacancies in industry
