Original sentence: Anti-Jewish sentiment started around the time of the Civil War, when General Ulysses Grant issued an order (quickly rescinded by President Lincoln) of expulsion against Jews from the portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi under his control.Anti-Semitism continued into the first half of 1900s.Jews were discriminated against in some employment, not allowed into some social clubs and resort areas, given a quota on enrollment at colleges, and not allowed to buy certain properties
Edited sentence: Anti-Jewish sentiment started around the time of the Civil War, when Jews were often blamed by each side for aiding the other, Ulysses Grant even issued an order (quickly rescinded by President Lincoln) of expulsion against Jews from the portions of Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi under his control.Anti-Semitism continued to rise, and even to become normalized, through the late 1800s and first half of 1900s.It took primarily four forms: verbal or written criticisms of Jews that included the dissemination of vicious stereotypes; calls for law restricting Jewish immigration or influence; violence against individual Jews, and de facto social and economic discrimination.Jews were discriminated against in employment, access to residential and resort areas, membership in the clubs and organizations, and in tightened quotas on Jewish enrollment (numerus clausus) and teaching positions in colleges and universities.Sometimes, during the race riots, as it was a case in Detroit in 1943, Jewish business were targeted for looting and burning.They were not allowed to vote in some states until the late 19th Century.While Anti-Semitism has proven less destructive to the Jews in the United States than in most other countries outside of Israel, Mexico and Oaxaca, Jews in the United States were often persecuted