Answer:
Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves in the rebelling states would be free on January 1, 1863.
-Lincoln promised to relocate those blacks who wished to leave the United States, and he emphasized that no Federal assistance would be given to slave owners if their slaves rebelled or ran away.
~ However, the Emancipation Proclamation claiming that slaves "henceforward shall be free" did not set one slave free, nor did it shorten the war as Lincoln had hoped.
so your answer would be the first one: not a single slave was freed
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Article I (Article 1 - Legislative) ...
Article II (Article 2 - Executive) ...
Article III (Article 3 - Judicial) ...
Article IV (Article 4 - States' Relations) ...
Article V (Article 5 - Mode of Amendment) ...
Article VI (Article 6 - Prior Debts, National Supremacy, Oaths of Office)
Article VII (Article 7 - Ratification)
Explanation:
I believe it's true
seven southern states seceded, then followed four more
<span>the release of the film “The Birth of a Nation”</span>
This question seems to be incomplete. However, there´s enough information to find the right answer.
I understand that this flag has serious important meanings . . . But that does not mean that . . . people may not under the First Amendment show their feelings by what Texas calls desecration of a venerated object. I think it's a most important case. I sense that it goes to the heart of the First Amendment, to hear things or to see things that we hate test the First Amendment more than seeing or hearing things that we like. It wasn't designed for things we like. They never needed a First Amendment.
—William M. Kunstler, Attorney for Gregory Lee Johnson, Texas v. Johnson
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In this excerpt, attorney William Kunstler is arguing against his client's conviction.
The main idea of this excerpt is that the First Amendment is essential because it
Answer: allows for symbolic speech
Explanation:
After Gregory Lee Johnson, William Kunstler´s client, was tried and convicted for having burned an American flag to protest against Reagan´s government, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction and the case was sent to the Supreme Court. The Texas v. Johnson court case brought up the question of whether or not the desecration of an American flag is a form of speech protected under the First Amendment. The court ruled that Johnson burning the flag was a form of expression with a distinctively political nature and was protected by the First Amendment.
