They called for a new legislative body
extended the right to vote to all male citizens
abolished the monarchy
established a republic
executed the king and queen
The Civil Rights Act fought tough opposition in the House and a lengthy, heated debate in the Senate before being approved in July 1964. For the signing of the historic legislation, Johnson invited hundreds of guests to a televised ceremony in the White House’s East Room.
The Northern states enjoyed increasing political representation and power born from rapid population growth. Because of the South’s investment in agriculture any attack on slavery, which was witnessed in the North, was an attack on Southern economy itself. Webster viewed slavery as a matter of historical reality rather than moral principle. Congress had prohibited slavery in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and divided regions into slave and free in the 1820 Missouri Compromise. Slavery where it existed could not be eradicated but it could not also take root in the newly acquired agriculturally barren lands on the southwest.
She wanted to save a $800 portrait of president George Washington
