Answer: Long before the Union victory, Congress had been preparing for the many challenges the nation would face at war’s end, particularly the integration of four million newly emancipated African Americans into the political life of the nation. Led by the Radical Republicans in the House and Senate, Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill on July 2, 1864—co-sponsored by Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Davis of Maryland—to provide for the admission to representation of rebel states upon meeting certain conditions. Among the conditions was the requirement that 50 percent of white males in the state swear a loyalty oath, and the insistence that the state grant African American men the right to vote. President Lincoln, who had earlier proposed a more modest 10-percent threshold, pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill, stating he was opposed to being “inflexibly committed to any single plan of restoration.” When the 38th Congress came to an end on March 3, 1865, the president and members of Congress had not yet reached an agreement on the terms of Reconstruction. Then, on April 9, General Lee surrendered. Less than a week later President Lincoln was assassinated and Vice President Andrew Johnson, a former senator from Tennessee, became president.
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Leonardo da Vinci lived in Milan between 1482 and 1499. He worked for the duke of Milan - Ludovico Sforza. His projects were:
- The Last Supper ( 1494-96 ), a large mural painting, representing the scene of the last supper of Jesus.
- Many paintings, including The Virgin of the Rocks ( 1495-97 ).
- The Narvigly, the system of navigable canals to ferry people and merchandise to Milan.
- Enormous equestrian sculpture, Leonardo`s horse, not completed ( 1492 ).
<span>By 1775, the attitudes of America’s colonial rebels had shifted from "protest to war," since it became clear around this time that Britain was not going to give in to their demands regarding taxation. </span>
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On March 6, 1836, after 13 days of intermittent fighting, the Battle of the Alamo comes to a gruesome end, capping off a pivotal moment in the Texas Revolution. Mexican forces were victorious in recapturing the fort, and nearly all of the roughly 200 Texan defenders—including frontiersman Davy Crockett—died.
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