Here so the other guy gets brainiest :)
Answer:
becuase of what king george did to the colinist
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making 3 houses with checks and balances so one house could not get more power than the other?
Explanation:
After the Civil War, the US Constitution became a means to ensure that African-Americans had rights in American society. This was due to the passage of the following three amendments:
1) 13th amendment- This outlawed slavery or forced labor all over the US.
2) 14th amendment- This amendment states that any person born on US soil or naturalized has all of the rights/freedoms guaranteed in the US Constitution.
3) 15th amendment- This amendment states that a person cannot be stopped from voting based on race, color, or past servitude. Essentially, this makes it so that a government can't stop a person from voting based on the fact that they were a slave before this time period.
I think the French surrender of Montreal was most significant for Britain as for future America it was, the Battle of Monongahela River when Washington had his first experience with true battle and lost his mentor Braddock.
Answer:
Carpetbaggers, opportunists from the north, and scalawags swindled people out of their property, exploited the poor, illiterate, and naive former slaves, giving them false promises of "forty acres and a mule" and manipulating them for their own political purposes.
