In this video segment, from the PBS documentary Looking for Lincoln<span>, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and historian David Blight examine President Abraham Lincoln’s mixed motivations for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. They conclude that while Lincoln ultimately recognized the moral righteousness freeing the slaves, his first and primary concern was strategic: it was the best way to rally the North and strike at the heart of the South’s economy. Gates and Blight then join a roundtable discussion of Lincoln scholars debating the legal authority of the Proclamation and its special meaning for African Americans.</span>
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The Townshend Acts of 1767-1768 placed taxes on items such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. One of the Townshend Acts allowed general search warrants. British offi ials used these to combat smuggling— illegally moving goods in or out of a country. Then, Parliament passed the Tea Act. " This measure was not a tax. In fact, it allowed a British company that grew tea in India to import its tea into the colonies without paying the existing tea tax. This made the British company’s tea cheaper than other tea sold in the colonies. Still, Parliament’s control of taxes angered the colonists."
The colonists were not at all happy with this, and resulted in the Boston Tea Party, which involved throwing hundreds of thousands of barrels of tea overboard British ships [while dressed as Native Indians], resulting in punishment from Parliament, the Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts.
The Dred Scott decision<span> served as an eye-opener to Northerners who ... to regulate</span>slavery<span> in </span>new territories<span>, these once-skeptics reasoned, ... to the reality instead, that the </span>Supreme Court has made<span> Illinois a </span>slave<span> State. ... </span>did<span> not stop </span>slavery<span> now, they might never again </span>have<span> the chance. </span>
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Homestead Act
Explanation:
The legislation that most contributed to the situation in this photograph is "Homestead Act".
From the photograph, we can discover a family sitting in front of a house. The house is likely the family's homestead.
The Homestead Act is an Act of 1862 that enabled adult to own land. The adult must not have taken up any arm against the Federal government of the United States. The Act also included black Americans and encouraged them to participate.
Some of the requirements needed in order to qualify for the Homestead Act is that the person must be the head of the household or reached at least twenty-one years of age. The individual must live on the designated land, farm on it for minimum of five years and build a home.
The above requirements stated can be deduced in the photograph.
