Revels arrived in Washington at the end of January 1870, but could not present his credentials until Mississippi was readmitted to the United States on February 23. Senate Republicans sought to swear in Revels immediately afterwards, but Senate Democrats were determined to block the effort. Led by Senator Garrett Davis of Kentucky and Senator Willard Saulsbury of Delaware, the Democrats claimed Revels’s election was null and void, arguing that Mississippi was under military rule and lacked a civil government to confirm his election. Others claimed Revels was not a U.S. citizen until the passage of the 14th Amendment in 1868 and was therefore ineligible to become a U.S. Senator. Senate Republicans rallied to his defense. Though Revels would not fill Davis’s seat, the symbolism of a black man’s admission to the Senate after the departure of the former President of the Confederacy was not lost on Radical Republicans. Nevada Senator James Nye underlined the significance of this event: “[Jefferson Davis] went out to establish a government whose cornerstone should be the oppression and perpetual enslavement of a race because their skin differed in color from his,” Nye declared. “Sir, what a magnificent spectacle of retributive justice is witnessed here today! In the place of that proud, defiant man, who marched out to trample under foot the Constitution and the laws of the country he had sworn to support, comes back one of that humble race whom he would have enslaved forever to take and occupy his seat upon this floor.”14 On the afternoon of February 25, the Senate voted 48 to 8 to seat Revels, who subsequently received assignments to the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on the District of Columbia.
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Ivan I Kalita
Explanation:
In 1328 Ivan Kalita received the approval of Khan Muhammad Ozbeg to become the Grand Duke of Vladimir with the right to collect taxes from all Russian lands.
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A desert is any location on Earth that receives less than ten inches of rain per year.
A tundra is a cold region of treeless level or rolling ground found mostly north of the Arctic Circle or above the timberline on mountains.
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- Sale of indulgences authorized by Pope Leo X to raise money to build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome (1515)
- Ninety-five Theses posted (1517)
- Hearing held at Worms, Germany (1521)
These events are most closely associated with B. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
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Pope Leo X was one of the peaceful popes who rose from a very decent background. He accelerated the work of the building of the famous artistic monument by raising money to build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome in 1515.
Martin Luther had questioned the Catholic's practice of absolving sins based on their indulgences. He considered this as a corrupt system. He penned down his thoughts in the famous 95 Thesis in the form of two beliefs. He said the Bible is the main religious authority and one should reach salvation based on their faith and not their deeds which sparked the Protestant Reformation.
The answer is A. It is A bc the Atlantic Slave Trade wa sthe sending of people to the Americas as laborers across the Atlantic.