Kennedy administration react to the March on Washington by pushing the Civil Rights Act through Congress and signed it into law.
<h3>What was the March on Washington?</h3>
This was the social march by an approximate of 250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans.
The Participants of the March on Washington walked down Constitution, Independence avenues and then gathered at the Lincoln Monument for speeches, songs, and prayer.
Because of the social demonstration, President Kennedy pushed the Civil Rights Act through Congress and signed it into law.
Therefore, the Option C is correct.
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The Underground Railroad was a complex network of secret routes that slaves traveled to get to freedom. Along the way, there were houses known as "safe houses". They were operated by free people, abolitionists, and Quakers. Without these people, the Umderground Railroad would habe never worked and slaves wouldn't have found freedom.
Ans: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed by Congress as one provision of the Compromise of 1850. The harsh terms of the act angered many Northerners and contributed to the sectional division over slavery that led to the American Civil War.
Answer:
The two compromises established a delicate balance between the North and the South.
Explanation:
The Great Compromise of 1787, also known as the Connecticut Compromise, was a political agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that defined the structure of the legislature of the United States. Under the Compromise, the legislature would be divided in two chambers: the Senate, as the upper house, where every state would have equal representation, and the Congress, the lower house, where seats would be allocated to states proportionally, according to their population. The Three-Fifths Compromise, on the other hand, was the other great compromise agreed during the Constitutional Convention. According to this compromise, three out of every five slaves would be counted as part of the population of each slave state when allocating seats for the Congress.
<u>The political significance of these two compromises was that they established a delicate balance between the North and the South.</u> For the northern states, which were generally smaller than the southern ones, the Great Compromise meant that they would be considered as equals. For the southern states, the Three-Fifths Compromise meant that they were overrepresented. If slaves had not been counted, they'd have been a minority in Congress. However, this balance was very fragile, and the disagreements between the North and South erupted into the Civil War of 1861-65,
