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Hace 2 días · The Proclamation was immediately denounced by Copperhead Democrats, who opposed the war and advocated restoring the union by allowing slavery.
Hace 1 día · The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history following the American Civil War, dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of abolishing slavery and reintegrating the eleven former Confederate States of America into the United States.
Hace 3 días · Within two years white southern intransigence, African American appeals, and political necessity convinced many northern Republicans that extending citizenship to former slaves was a prerequisite for the restoration of the Union.
Hace 3 días · In December 1863 Lincoln announced a general plan for the orderly Reconstruction of the Southern states, promising to recognize the government of any state that pledged to support the Constitution and the Union and to emancipate enslaved persons if it was backed by at least 10 percent of the number of voters in the 1860 presidential election.
Hace 6 días · It speaks of liberty and prohibits the deprivation of liberty without due process of law. In prohibiting that deprivation, the Constitution does not recognize an absolute and uncontrollable liberty. Liberty in each of its phases has its history and connotation.
Hace 5 días · At the Humanities Texas teacher institute "Shaping the American Republic to 1877" at The University of Texas at El Paso, historian Gordon S. Wood gave this fascinating lecture on "The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution." Wood is an emeritus professor of history at Brown University.
Hace 5 días · Introduction. Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993) had a storied career, first as an attorney whose courtroom successes earned him the nickname “Mr. Civil Rights,” next as a federal judge, and finally as the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
