Women in Pompeii and Herculaneum had a social position between slaves and freedmen. They often spent their time at home‚ learning and fulfilling the required domestic skills. Although they did not have as many rights as the men did‚ they were still able to gain power by operating businesses‚ owning land‚ becoming priestesses‚ and earn profits for themselves. Girls‚ usually from an upper-class‚ had an education either at home or school‚ giving them the knowledge to fulfill the rights they had. The
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officials who did not have any constitutional guidelines on readmission had to pick of the pieces of a divided country and develop a plan that would bring states back into the Union. Furthermore‚ new economic and social policy was needed to accommodate freedmen. Reconstruction was a failed approach to reunite the Union because of weak policy and the inability of executives to develop a nonpartisan plan that would ease tension with the Southern states. The lack of multiple administration’s competence was
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10 out of 10 points Which of the following did the congressional Reconstruction program enacted 1866-1867 NOT provide for? Answer Selected Answer: a land reform measure that would grant small tracts of farmland to deserving freedmen Question 6 10 out of 10 points The southern response to war’s end and Johnson’s program of Reconstruction indicated Answer Selected Answer: despair and defiance. Question 7 10 out of 10 points In
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camp. His childhood was not a happy one‚ spent in an atmosphere of paranoia‚ suspicion‚ and murder. Uncertainty over the succession of power from the aging Tiberius‚ led to a series of personal tragedies. His famous father Germanicus‚ his mother Agrippina the elder and all his brothers were either killed or starved to death by order of the suspicious Emperor Tiberius (reigning at that time) and his ambitious Praetorian Prefect‚ Sejanus. During his adolescence‚ Caligula was like a prisoner of Tiberius
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the union‚ giving African-Americans (ex-slaves) their freedom and rights and providing aid to the freed slaves and poor whites. Its failures were the Anti-African Americans groups such as the KKK‚ the Black Codes‚ not protecting the rights of the freedmen and the southern corruption. Although African-Americans were freed and gained their rights because of 13th‚ 14th and 15th amendments‚ and the ex-eleven confederate states came back to the union‚ the Reconstruction was more of a failure than a success
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with countless other barriers were put into place to prevent the uneducated slaves from voting. Many slaves did become share croppers. In most cases they did not become share croppers on their own‚ but most of the time were tricked into it. 90% of freedmen were had no education so it
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The Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention was organized by a number of local Quaker women and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and was strategically scheduled during Philadelphia-stationed orator Lucretia Mott’s visit to the
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success in a way that the North and the South union to become The United State of America as well as African Americans received their freedom. Thirteen Amendment ended slavery for Black Southerners. There was around 4 millions slaves became freedmen in America. Freedmen now can not only have legal marriage but also receive “Families in freedom” which they could keep track of the family (GML‚ 549). Moreover‚ the black men finally received citizenship and guaranteed black suffrage by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
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who had been disqualified… After the passage of this act only a few hundred ex-Confederates remained unpardoned. How did the restoration of voting rights to white Southerners undermine efforts to preserve and protect the voting rights of the freedmen? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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full civil rights of African-Americans. "An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen‚ and for Other Purposes‚" this code was passed in 1865‚ but it found itself very misleading. Other states quickly adopted their own versions of the code; most of these made up codes represented the old version of slavery such as forced labor only for the blacks as punishment for the tiniest crime or act. The Bureau of Refugees‚ Freedmen and Abandoned Lands act was organized to provide assistance to
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