<em>The group of people that Washington surprised and captured after crossing the Delaware were the;</em>
<u>Hessians</u>
First the act proclaimed 'that all persons born in the USA are hereby declared citizens. Second the act specifically defines the rights of American citizenship. Third the act made it unlawful to deprive a person of any of these rights of citizenship on the basis of race color or prior condition of slavery or involuntary servitude.
he Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
