Representatives were elected by people.There are many reasons overall, but the most prevalent ways that self-government grew in the colonies was the desire to be free of the near-tyrannical control <span>the British ruling class imposed on the commerce of the day.
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, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
