According to the Past and Present video in section 15.6,the phrase "forty acres and a mule" refers to freedmen's expectations of __________ equality during Reconstruction.

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The phrase "forty acres and a mule" refers to the expectation of economic equality among freedmen during Reconstruction. It was a promise made to them by Union General William T. Sherman that they would receive 40 acres of land and a mule to help them start their new lives after slavery. However, this promise was never fully realized, and former slaves faced economic hardship and sharecropping instead.

According to the Past and Present Video in Section 15