At times it was powerful while eventually it fell.
The Confiscation Acts themselves did not do much but laid the legal and social groundwork for the Emancipation Proclamation which would come in the following year.
Lincoln was able to capitalize on the reaction to the Confiscation Act to feel comfortable enough to push forward the Emancipation Proclamation, which applied to all slaves in rebel held territory.
The Monroe Doctrine (Named after Pres. James Monroe)
The excerpt above is part of the 14th amendment. This amendment was passed in 1868 and was supposed to help protect newly freed slaves. The goal in passing this was to ensure that African-Americans had the same legal rights as white citizens.
This due process clause has been used in several important Supreme Court cases to protect American citizens.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be the rise of the "proletariat," since Marx and his peers were highly against the consolidation of private wealth. </span></span>
