<span>Shakespeare should be the answer.</span>
Charles Sumner, who was a Massachusetts senator in the U.S. government, died in 1874. He actively worked towards movements that would assist slaves in the south before, during and after the war. In the years leading up to his death, he and his colleagues continued to lobby for better rights for the African-Americans in the South.
The British government would not address American complaints that the new laws were unfair. This then led for the Americans to revolt and make the Declaration of Independence from the British.