<span>C.) Case in which the supreme court first asserted the power of Judicial review in finding that the congressional statue expanding the Court's original jurisdiction was unconstitutional</span>
Unlike other cases of imperial disintegration especially in the Americas , the colonies in Africa and Asia had the advantage of receiving independence or self rule without a major blood bath, with most of them receiving peacefully from their colonial masters. Several other colonies before had never received independence peacefully.
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The South became more dependent on slavery, deepening the differences between the South and the North
On January 25, 1863 the Governor of Massachusetts received the authority to recruit black troops. The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers was the first black regiment from the North - and also a fine fighting unit.
<span>"It presaged the full-scale organization and employment of Negro soldiers. It initiated the new Negor soldier policy of procedding not by the the parceling out of authority to selected individuals and states but by decree and direction of the War Department acting through the army. This step was the great turning point in the development of the movement to arm the Negro as a soldier."</span>
