Answer:
This statement abolished slavery as a government amendment after the Civil War.
Explanation:
This passage describes the thirteenth constitutional amendment which is the amendment that officially ended slavery in the USA. This amendment was approved after the American Civil War, where the victory of the union, formed by the northern states that were against slavery, allowed slavery to be ended and banned once and for all. The amendment, as is already known, is still valid today and represents a great victory for the African-American people.
Answer:
Enlightenment changed people's ideas about government. People questioned: Are people born with special rights that must be respected?
Should citizens have more say in what their govt. does?
Does the people have the right to overthrow an unjust govt?
Explanation:
The Glorious Revolution ended the Dominion of New England in 1689
English Bill of Rights provided a model or representative govt.
Both ideas supported the idea that citizens have rights that the govt. must respect.
<u>Enlightenment ideas:</u>
Locke argued people are born with <u>natural rights</u>
Locke and Rousseau wrote that the govt. was based on <u>social contracts</u> with citizens.
Montesquieu supported <u>separation of powers</u> between different branches in a representative govt.
Voltaire argued for <u>religious tolerance</u> of all faiths.
Answer:
True
Explanation:
Some Northern states banned slavery outright, and some provided for the gradual end of slavery. At any rate, the climate of the Revolution made the institution unacceptable in the minds of many Northerners, who did not rely on forced labor as part of the economic system.