Answer:
Congress required Southern states to draft new constitutions guaranteeing African-American men the right to vote. The constitutions also had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted African Americans equal protection under the law.
Explanation:
<span> “</span>And thereupon the said lords spiritual
and temporal and commons . . . do . . . declare that the pretended power of
suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent
of parliament is illegal.
That levying money for
or to the use of the crown . . . without grant of parliament for longer time or
in other manner than the same is or shall be granted is illegal.
That it is the right of
the subjects to petition the king and all commitments and protections for such
petitioning are illegal.
That the raising or
keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace unless it be with
consent of parliament is against law. . . .
That election of
members of parliament ought to be free. . . .”
John Jay spend most of the time during revolutionary war in Spain as a diplomat. He spent 3 year there garnering support for American Colonies in the Independence War. His mission was gaining financial support for Colonies and an alliance with Spain which entered the war on French side against Great Britain.
He also participated in Treaty of Paris in 1783 alogn with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams for negotiating with Britain the American independence.
He also helped the United States secure all land east of the Mississippi River, with the exception of British territories in Canada and Spanish territory in Florida, effectively doubling the size of the new nation.
When mikhail Gorbachev assumed reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985.
