The event that set off World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo.
<span>The </span>Constitution<span> provides that </span>an amendment<span> may be </span>proposed<span> either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a </span>constitutional<span> convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures.</span>
The main effect of the systems of sharecropping and debt peonage put in place in the South after the Civil War was that the African American people were prevented from leaving the very plantations where they had worked as slaves. The African Americans were bound to the land since they were buying the land through sharecropping.
Congress wasn't allowed to make a law banning the slave trade before 1808.
