DURING RECONSTRUCTION, African Americans had the right to vote!  Yay!  (B is incorrect.)  Due to the sheer numbers of African American voters, African Americans often won political office throughout the South--a big change from before!  A is correct!!  Keep in mind that while African Americans were elected in the North, the question asks about African Americans in the SOUTH (C is incorrect).  Also, minimum wage didn't exist in the United States at the time (D is incorrect).
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Answer:The House of Burgesses helped make laws in Virginia. In New England, colonists at town meetings decided local issues
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Basically means that power that isn't given to the government is given to the people. Not sure what you're asking by a skit. 
        
             
        
        
        
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the president does so the answer is executive branch.
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The Continental Navy was created by George Washington in 1775 to protect the American colonies from attacks by the British. At the end of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Navy was disbanded. However, American merchant ships were under continuous attacks by North African pirates so the Department of the Navy was created by Congress in April 1798. Also, after the American Revolution, the British refused to leave American territory along the Great Lakes and continued to attack American merchant ships. This led to the War of 1812.