Two of the major ways in which the Civil War amendments (commonly referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments) added to individual freedoms was that they abolished slavery and involuntary servitude (with the 13th Amendment) and made it so every US citizen had equal protection under the law (with the 14th amendment).
He had a well-shaped head - not the "bullet" type of many pugilists - and dark hair which was turning gray. He carried this head at a proud angle which gave emphasis to his prominent jaw. His face was somewhat florid, so that even without knowing who he was, on would have said "Here is a man who has been a hard drinker." He had a fine mustache in the old tradition. Starting below his nostrils this mustache, a few shades grayer than his hair, extended in leisurely fashion over his lip and all the way across his face on both sides. The under edges were a trifle ragged and the curl at the ends was upward. He had a custom of snorting sometimes, as he was about to say something, after which he would stroke his mustache, first on one side, then on the other. I got the idea that this stroking business acted as a sedative on him. . . .
He talked with a perceptible, but not pronounced, brogue. When he became excited, however, this brogue grow thicker. He made small errors in grammar, which stamped him as a man of little education, but remembering how brief his education really was, one had to admit that he talked remarkably well. . . .
"Well, there's nothing to fighting, " he opened up, "Just come out fast from your corner, hit the other fellow as hard as you can and hit him first. That's all there is to fighting."
He laughed, then at once grew serious.
"What I should like to talk about is something else. Whiskey! There's the only fighter that ever really licked old John L. Jim Corbett, according to the record, knocked me out in New Orleans in 1892, but he only gave the finishing touches to what whiskey had already done to me. If I had met Jim Corbett before whiskey got me I'd have killed him. I stopped drinking long ago, but of course, too late. Too late for old John L., but not too late for millions of boys who are starting out to follow the same road
To serve as president, one must: be a natural-born U.S. citizen of the United States; be at least 35 years old; be a resident in the United States for at least 14 years.
Wingina was the the principal chief the Secotan indians during Sir Walter Raleigh's two expeditions to America in 1585 and 1586
Wingina had friendly relationship with the expeditioners but relations turned sour when the English both exploited and subjugated the Indians taking advantage of their superior weaponry and the natives' superstitions.
Pemisapan (as Wingina was later known as) and his men planned several schemes to throw off the English yoke of oppression, but efforts were in vain and culminated in tribe being wiped out and the decapitation of Wingina himself.
