1. 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment was passed in 1866, it grants citizenship to every person born in the United States or naturalize citizens which include former slaves. The Amendment also granted every person in the county equal rights and the same benefits of all laws in the constitution. It forbade the government from taking liberty, property, and denying anyone from equal rights. When the Amendment first landed on President Andrew Johnson’s desk, he vetoed it. He felt that it gives special privileges to slaves over other white and felt they should not deserve same rights as whites. Because of Andrew Johnson vetoed, it causes his impeachment, and later the government ratify the amendment.
2. John Brown
John Brown was born into deeply religious family that were opposed to slavery practices in the southern states. John believed that the only way to end slavery was with violence, he and his followers killed many slave’s owners and chop their bodies into small pieces. He actions lead to the crisis of Bleeding Kansas, a series of violent protest which cause the death of many pro-slavery protesters in weather Kansas should be a free or a slave state. Brown later carried out a raid into the federal armory at Harpers to arm his followers, but it leads to his …show more content…
The bill opened up government owned land in the western United States which allow any American including freed slaves to claim land to try their hands at farming. The program work by give any person 160 acres for five years and later having the option to buy or when the land started making a profit a person had to start paying the. The government wanted to encourage families to settle in the west so that rich slave owners could not buy all the land for themselves. The program such a succeed that by the end of the bill in 1964, more then 80 million acres where given
The 14th Amendment was passed in 1866, it grants citizenship to every person born in the United States or naturalize citizens which include former slaves. The Amendment also granted every person in the county equal rights and the same benefits of all laws in the constitution. It forbade the government from taking liberty, property, and denying anyone from equal rights. When the Amendment first landed on President Andrew Johnson’s desk, he vetoed it. He felt that it gives special privileges to slaves over other white and felt they should not deserve same rights as whites. Because of Andrew Johnson vetoed, it causes his impeachment, and later the government ratify the amendment.
2. John Brown
John Brown was born into deeply religious family that were opposed to slavery practices in the southern states. John believed that the only way to end slavery was with violence, he and his followers killed many slave’s owners and chop their bodies into small pieces. He actions lead to the crisis of Bleeding Kansas, a series of violent protest which cause the death of many pro-slavery protesters in weather Kansas should be a free or a slave state. Brown later carried out a raid into the federal armory at Harpers to arm his followers, but it leads to his …show more content…
The bill opened up government owned land in the western United States which allow any American including freed slaves to claim land to try their hands at farming. The program work by give any person 160 acres for five years and later having the option to buy or when the land started making a profit a person had to start paying the. The government wanted to encourage families to settle in the west so that rich slave owners could not buy all the land for themselves. The program such a succeed that by the end of the bill in 1964, more then 80 million acres where given