Answer:
He meant that the act was made to increase the power of slave states.
Explanation:
He made that statement when he's commenting about the Fugitive slave act of 1850. This act was made to made sure slaves that escaped the free states to be returned to the owners.
Douglass believed that this act was a conspiracy that made by legislators from Sothern states to expand the power of the slave states.
Mason & Dixon lines were the lines that separated the slaves states and free states region. Douglass believed that the fugitive slave act of 1850 made this line basically obsolete. The free states wouldn't be able to provide protection to African American like they intended to.
Answer:
I think it is C) “separate but equal” facilities were inherently unequal in nature and were illegal.
But i would wait for someone else to answer i may be wrong :)
Explanation:
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to keep african americans from voting.
As many African Americans were poor or illiterate (being foreign slaves), they usually failed tests. The Poll tax was first instituted to keep slaves from voting, but with the poorest of the poor whites complaining, they soon changed it to the literacy test, so that they can keep slaves from using their new found right of voting.
The Battles of Lexington and Concord happened on April 19th of 1775. On that day British troops were sent to confiscate weapons and were attacked by American militia. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are famous for being “The Shot Heard Around The World” and the battle that started or “ignited” the American Revolutionary War.
