By the addition of spanish territories
B. African American men were granted the right to vote.
- Only days after the end of the American Civil War, in 1865, Frederick Douglass, elected president of the <u>Convention of Black Americans</u>, spoke during a meeting of the African Slavery Society, explaining why the black men required the right to vote and the need to make justice for them. Here is an excerpt of what his speech:
<em>“…If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag for the government, he knows enough to vote…What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.”
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- Thus, in 1869, while this issue was being discussed in the Congress, 150 black men from several states gathered for the <u>Convention of Black Americans</u>, which took place in Washington, D.C. and was the first one in the U.S. history.
- After debating in the Congress, the 15th Amendment, which granted male African American the right to vote, was finally adopted in 1870. Moreover, the Article 1 of such Amendment states that <em>"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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<u>Adams think the Declaration is worth celebrating, in spite of the cost because:</u>
John Adams wished that the fourth of July will be celebrated with a lot of pomp and joy, topped with celebration and fireworks. He believed that this day will be celebrated because he called it as a “day of deliverances by solemn act of devotion to the God almighty”.
He called it a divine event which has to be celebrated with the utmost grandeur across the entire continent. The approval of the crown to grant independence to the thirteen colonies is something which has to be celebrated in the upcoming years.
They probably want (a) but the real answer is neither.
