The correct answer is by becoming more active in addressing social issues than her predecessors
Eleanor married the rising politician, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905 and was completely involved in public service. When they arrived at the White House in 1933 as President and First Lady, she was already deeply involved in human rights and social justice issues. As he continued his work on behalf of all people, he defended equal rights for women, African Americans, workers in the era of depression, taking inspiration and attention to their causes. Courageously frank, she publicly supported Marian Anderson when in 1939 the black singer was denied use of the Washington Constitution Hall due to her race. Roosevelt ensured that Anderson would sing instead on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, creating a lasting and inspiring image of personal prowess and human rights.
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) were four laws passed by Federalists that restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country, allowed the government to deport foreigners seen as "dangerous", made it difficult for immigrants to vote, requiring them to reside for 14 years in the U.S. to become eligible to vote, and it prohibited public opposition to the government.
1. What led to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The Acts were passed after the diplomatic incident called "XYZ Affair" that almost involved the United States and France in war. Facing French foreign threat, the Federalist President Adams created the acts as a way to prevent subversion in the United States against governmental measures.
2. What made them so controversial?
The Acts, especially the Sedition Act, were so controversial because it violated people's rights of freedom of speech and of the press protected under the First Amendment. Under the acts, anyone who wrote, printed, uttered or published any writing seen as false, scandalous and malicious against the government could be imprisoned or would have to pay fines.
Answer:
Within the scope of the slave trade, African states- not all were tribes- already dealt in slaves within Africa. Such, British ships were simply another consumer with whom they participated in trade, often exchanging the human cargoes for gunpowder weaponry and the like.
Explanation:
1. Missouri Compromise (allowed slavery in Missouri)
2. Kansas-Nebraska Act (made Kansas a territory free do decide on slavery)
3. Dred Scott (made black people property)
4. Fugitive Slave Act (forced north to cooperate with slave owners)
5. Bleeding Kansas (Missouri pro-slavery men invaded and terrorized Kansas to force slavery)
Missouri compromise was the beginning were it all started.
