Andrew Johnson extended a general pardon of citizens of the South in the form of the grant of an amnesty, subject to several exceptions: officers or diplomats of the Confederate;those who left US judicial stations to help rebels;those above certain rank, such as Colonel; etc., in general denying the pardon to those who had more responsability in the rebellion.
I think is Because Christians refused to worship the Roman gods. It will help you :)
Enlightened - having or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook. so basically the same definition
According to Albert Barnes, their mistake was that they didn't speak against slavery. Although many of them believed that slavery was against god and against the idea that god made everyone equal, they didn't do much against it out of many reasons, either they thought it was a necessary evil or they were afraid of the public reaction.
The correct passage which best reflects common features of realistic fiction is:
From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank.
(<em>Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets)</em>
