With the promise of freedom and new economic and educational opportunities, Kansas attracted many African Americans in its territorial days, through statehood, and into the 20th century. Slavery existed in the Kansas Territory, but slave holdings were small compared to the South. Many black migrants also came to the territory as hired laborers, while some traveled as escaped slaves through the Underground Railroad. In the 1860s, others joined the Union Army, and some moved from the South in large groups during the Kansas Exodus, a mass migration of freedpeople during the 1870s and 1880s. As a territory that had a long and violent history of pre-Civil War contests over slavery, Kansas emerged as the “quintessential free state” and seemed like a promised land for African Americans who searched for what they called a “New Canaan.”
Answer:
It places limitations on the power of the government.
It is the first 10 amendments of the US Constitution.
It outlines the basic rights and freedoms of US citizens.
Explanation:
The Bill of Rights is a document that was added to the constitution. These additions are known as amendments. The bill of rights includes the first 10 of these amendments. These were added because the Anti-Federalists wanted to limit the power of the government while ensuring that the people maintained their rights. The citizens of America are always guaranteed these rights and freedoms.
Answer: C
Explanation:
The series of acts British Parliament passes in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts.
People started losing their job and with their job losing money also.
