The Homestead Act (1862) granted land for former African slaves in Western U.S.
Also, they were not "African Americans". They were freed, but many were not Americans yet. They were Africans :)
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Answer: For treason and criminal activity
Explanation:
The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. ... Executions were carried out for such capital offenses as marrying a Jew, not confessing to a crime, and treason.
Answer: Most white Southerners reacted to defeat and emancipation with dismay. Many families had suffered the loss of loved ones and the destruction of property. Some thought of leaving the South altogether, or retreated into nostalgia for the Old South and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
Explanation:
The Second Indochina War (aka the Vietnam War) began as a conflict between the South Vietnamese army and government, and the communist Viet Cong. The United States publicly supported the South Vietnamese government but didn't want to join the war unless absolutely necessary.
