<span>The fifteenth amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870, being the final of the three reconstruction amendments made. This amendment was of crucial importance because it gave African-americans equal voting rights by ensuring that no man will ever be banned from voting based on their race, color, or previous condition of servitude.</span>
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During an important time in the history of the colonies in North America, it came a time when the British owned most of the known territory in this region of the Americas. French people were more interested in maintaining the fur trade alive in order to make big profits. But the English were more interested in settling the land.
This British presence in most on the East coast territories meant more surveillance to the colonists, or at least that is how American colonists perceived it.
This represented a period of many hostilities, confrontations, and differences between the English crown and the 13 colonies. Yes, there were wars such as the Pontiac's War or the Seven Years War that increased the tensions between the colonies and the British government.
But what really upset and angered the colonists were the series of heavy taxations imposed by the English government such as the Navigation Acts, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, the Intolerable Acts, and many more. Colonists were infuriated by these "aggravations."
And what made things worse was the fact that colonists had no voice or opinion in the British Parliament.
And what about aggressions such as the one called the Boston Massacre?
Of course, these things were major causes for the Revolutionary War of Independence.
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Containment was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries
In the early days, Chicago was inhabited by Algonquian people. With the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal - that runs down to the Gulf of Mexico - and the first rail line to Chicago, the city started to become the national transportation hub with road, rail, water and, air connections. Also, Chicago sits in the center of the most fertile agricultural areas of the United States. Because of all those factors, Chicago grew quickly - in less than 20 years the population grew from 4 thousand inhabitants to 169 thousand.
