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☆☆☆☆☆slavery was eliminated in the north.- novanet
Some reasons for the failure of British troops in the South are as follows:
- The British had to divert troops to defend gulf coast forts under Spanish attack.
- Rebels used guerrilla warfare, while the British were used to a more forthright style of war.
- The British overestimated the loyalist faction.
- The British got too far away from their fleet and had no reliable supply lines.
novanet : to make a surprise attack on German mercenaries in trenton, new jersey
NovaNet Answer: to arrest colonial leaders in hiding there.
the french fleet arrived at the right moment to blockade a British escape
The Redeemers
Novanet answer: rights that all men are born with
It allowed southern children to get an education, but segregation made it expensive.
Jewish Americans, also the Asian Americans
Congress established the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) in 1914.
Each colony had two-house legislature, which mirrored the government of Britain.
They were muckrakers who dramatized the need for reform
One reason is that Southern whites feared that freed blacks would seek revenge for their past treatment as slaves.
Other reasons were:
1) freed blacks represented competition for white industries and professions
2) freed blacks represented political opposition (as they would again in 1865)
Manumission (which is simply the voluntary freeing of slaves) was unwelcome in the South because they felt that slaves would be more likely to try to escape if they had examples of successful freedmen. Another was that freed slaves might have legal status to hold previous owners responsible for maltreatment or injury. The concept of being "born into slavery" was seen as conferring a lifelong status by slaveholders.
