Southern blacks lost rights in the years after the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth amendments because the North withdrew many of the troops that had been enforcing these new laws, leaving southerners to pass a series of Jim Crow laws that prohibited blacks from voting, gaining jobs, and a variety of other things in the South.
The people hold the power in a democracy
Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole in the latter half of the 19th century, created works of
mammoth scale that attempted to capture the epic scope of the American
landscape that favored contemplation of natural beauty. he belonged to the Hudson river artist school.
