<span>One reason the Bolshevicks gained peasant support during the Russian revolution was because the bolsheviks promised to withdraw Russia from World War I--since this war was highly unpopular with most Russians. </span>
God had created a rational universe that could only be understood through reason.
After the Civil War, Southern state legislatures attempted to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons by "passing Black Codes" which segregated blacks from whites.
In the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln declared all slaves who lived in states rebelling
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against the government were free.</span>
