1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Solnce55 [7]
3 years ago
5

When Lincoln says “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth….” he is referring to the year 1776.

History
1 answer:
grigory [225]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” A score is another way of saying 20, so Lincoln was referring to 1776, which was 87 ...

Slavery, Lincoln stated, was the reason for the war: ... To say that slavery was the cause placed responsibility for the bloodshed on the South.

he have to finish what they started: Win war, unite as a union and end slavery. ... Gave lives to keep union together, gave live

The Civil War, in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, brought to America "a new birth of freedom." And during the war began the nation's efforts to come to terms with the destruction of slavery and to define the meaning of freedom.s to country, some gave their lives to slavery.

Only white Americans benefited from the independence and freedom gained in 1776, while African slaves had no rights and were forced to live in an unequal and unjust society. After emancipation, they were given more freedoms and liberties which took them much closer to being as free and equal in the US as white people.

You might be interested in
What is ONE reason 16th century Venetians began opening up their homes for rent? A. Gentrification had slowed housing developmen
USPshnik [31]

Answer:

The answer is C

The city's housing could not keep up with the population surge.

Explanation:

In the 16th century, vernice was already a center of attraction. Vernice,a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges.

The name "VERNICE" is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically the capital of the Defunct Republic of Venice which was a great nation that existed long time ago, By the 16th century, Venice was the capital of its own huge empire and a major crossroads of trade and travel between Europe and the Mediterranean. At the same time, painters including Titian and Giorgione were making the city a centre of Renaissance culture, the population surged from around 100,000 to nearly 170,000. The city housing could not keep up with The population and so many

Venetians began opening up their homes for rent.

8 0
3 years ago
list the reasons why many people in France were critical of a) the nobility; b) the king; c) the clergy.
garik1379 [7]

They didn't need to pay any expenses whatsoever. They were the main ones who could hold vital positions. Officers in the armed force. Nobles controlled peasants. They didn't need to pay most duties and gathered tolls from individuals utilizing streets and markets. Numerous nobles and clergy lived in awesome extravagance in chateaux and castles.


5 0
3 years ago
Lincoln was able to speak to both sides of the slavery debate. why did he feel compelled to speak to both sides, given his perso
inysia [295]
Well Lincoln was an honest man who believed in honest hard work but he felt that forceing a man or woman to do so without equal pay was unworthy of being called a respectable American. He felt drawn to speaking on both sides because he wanted to find common ground between the union and the confederacy but that was a difficult task in its own due to the civil war going on at the time. Ultimately he was able to free the slaves by using his presidency and powers of persuasion.
6 0
3 years ago
What did homer plessy believe would protect his constitutional rights, even as a black American?
scoundrel [369]

Answer:

<h2>The 14th Amendment</h2>

Historical background/details:

After the Civil War, in 1868, the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution.  It stipulated that no state in the United States shall "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

In the decades after the Civil War, however, states in the South began to pass laws that sought to keep white and black society separate.  In the 1880s, a number of  state legislatures began to pass laws requiring railroads to provide separate cars for passengers who were black.  At the heart of the case that became <em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em> was an 1890 law passed in Louisiana in 1890 that required railroads to provide "separate railway carriages for the white and colored races.”

In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 black, bought a first class train railroad ticket, took a seat in the whites only section, and then informed the conductor that he was part black.  He was removed from the train and jailed.  He argued for his civil rights before Judge John Howard Ferguson and was found guilty.  His case went all the way to the Supreme Court which at that time upheld the idea of "separate but equal" facilities.

Homer Plessy was correct in his convictions, though.  The 14th Amendment really did protect his consitutional rights.  It just took a while for the nation to come to terms with that reality.  Several decades after Homer Plessy's case, the 1896 <em>Plessy v. Ferguson </em>decision was overturned.  <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em>, decided by the US Supreme Court in 1954, extended civil liberties to all Americans in regard to access to education. The "separate but equal" principle of <em>Plessy v. Ferguson</em> had been applied to education as it had been to transportation. In Topeka, Kansas, Oliver Brown filed a lawsuit after the public school district refused to enroll his daughter in the school closest to their home, making her instead take a bus to a blacks-only school.  Other families joined the Brown family lawsuit.  When it went to the level of the Supreme Court, there were other cases from other parts of the country that the Supreme Court combined with it.  The full name of the case at the Supreme Court level was <em>Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.  </em>The arguments were heard before the Supreme Court in 1952 and 1953, and the <em>Brown v. Board of Education </em>decision was issued  in 1954.   The standard of "separate but equal" was challenged and defeated. Segregation was shown to create inequality, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled segregation to be unconstitutional.

The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection to all citizens. This was what the Supreme Court said was being violated by states whose laws supported the segregation of schools.  Section 1 of the 14th Amendment reads as follows:

  • <em>All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.</em>
5 0
3 years ago
Which of these would be of GREATEST importance to people who want to monitor the actions of government? A. 1st amendment B.2nd a
Lunna [17]
The best answer to this question is the first choice because the 1st amendment limits the power of government in order to protect the unalienable rights of American citizens. 
4 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • China's trade with the world:<br> What was traded and with who?
    13·1 answer
  • What powers did the new government have under the Constitution that the Confederation lacked?
    8·1 answer
  • How did the collapse of central authority have continuing effects on western europe
    11·1 answer
  • Why have locks been created between the Great Lakes and the st.lawarenc river
    10·2 answers
  • Which situation contributed to the success of Mohandas Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience in India? Pakistan and Bangladesh
    8·2 answers
  • This right allows any person to come to an agreement with specific terms with another
    9·1 answer
  • Federalism is best defined as a principle of
    11·2 answers
  • What is the number of representatives a state has in Congress based on
    11·1 answer
  • Which of these statements summarizes how the
    5·2 answers
  • What is NOT an example of an invention during the Second Industrial Revolution?
    12·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!