Yohanan Ben Zakkai was able to put up a school for rabbis due to the permission of Vespasian, a Roman general. When the city where Zakkai lived was under siege by Vespasian, he faked his death so that he can hide inside a coffin and his pupils can bring him out of the city. He told Vespasian that he had a vision of the general would soon be an emperor, and he requested that his city be spared from war and for him to be able to build a school. Vespasian agreed that if the prophesy came true, he will grant his request. After becoming the emperor, Ben Zakkai was able to put up his school.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Black citizens of the US gained the right to vote in 1870, in which, Congress passed the last of the three so-called Reconstruction Amendments, the 15th Amendment, which stated that voting rights could not be “denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”