Tetzel was known for granting indulgences on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church in exchange for money, which are claimed to allow a remission of temporal punishment due to sin, the guilt of which has been forgiven, a position heavily
The poor standing of Leopold the 2nd is most probably attributed to the role he had in the extermination of huge amounts of people in Belgian colonies at the time. This wasn't known at the time, but today we known that Leopold the 2nd had ordered a genocide over the Congonese people.
Private citizens had to pay higher taxes for each runaway slave.
Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward American entry into World War 1 was that he insisted on neutrality until the United States was provoked by German actions.
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That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State. the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United states ,shall be then thence forward and forever free; and the executive government of the United states ,including military and naval authority the office will recognize and maintain freedom of such persons and will do not acts to repress such persons,or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom
