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The term that Mark Twain coined as an era characteriezed by a facade of prosperity was gilded age. "Gilded Age" was a title of a book that he co-wrote with Charles Warner. The book is about poor people trying to get rich and their relentless pursuit of wealth. Gilded gold was a term that meant that gold was placed on top of gold over and over, as in a bar of gold.
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1. Before the Civil War ended, Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery. After the war, white southerners created legislation (known as Black Codes) to prevent freedmen from exercising their rights, prompting Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1866, which guaranteed black citizenship.
2. Citizens of the United States and the State in which they reside are all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its authority. No State shall make or execute any law that restricts the privileges or immunities of United States citizens; no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and no State shall refuse equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction.
3. The right to vote of United States citizens shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on the basis of race, color, or past servitude.
4. They are generally known as the Civil War Amendments, and I believe they were designed to ensure equality for newly liberated slaves.
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The correct answer is A) They had differing ideas about a powerful national government.
After the Revolutionary War, states were consistently worried about the power of the national (central) government. Considering that one of the biggest reasons for breaking away from England was a tyrannical central government, helps to understand why there were differing ideas about the structure of the American govenrment when the US became independent.
This is why the United States, under the Articles of Confederation, had a small and weak central government. Some states liked this while other states felt that this central govenrment was too weak to function effectively.
