The emancipation proclamation was a. delayed until after the union won a battle. b. delivered after the defeat of the confederacy at appomattox. c. designed to free the slaves in the north. d. overturned by the thirteenth amendment. e. intended to draw the south into a war of conquest.

Why did jefferson make the louisiana purchase?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Which of these was not a part of the english bill of rights? people could bear arms. monarchs could create taxes. monarchs could not suspend laws. free speech was ok in parliament.