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6 days ago · Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the conflict was caused primarily by France's determination to reassert its dominant position in continental Europe, which appeared in question following the decisive Prussian victory over Austria in 1866.
- France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
- German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
3 days ago · The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870 giving African-Americans the right to vote in American elections. U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens was one of the major policymakers regarding Reconstruction, and obtained a House vote of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson .
May 16, 2024 · Commune of Paris, (1871), insurrection of Paris against the French government from March 18 to May 28, 1871. It occurred in the wake of France’s defeat in the Franco-German War and the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire (1852–70).
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May 16, 2024 · To former abolitionists and to the Radical Republicans in Congress who fashioned Reconstruction after the Civil War, the 15th Amendment, enacted in 1870, appeared to signify the fulfillment of all promises to African Americans.
1 day ago · February 3, 1870: The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified. May 31, 1870: The Enforcement Act of 1870 becomes law. February 24, 1871: Representatives from Georgia, the final Confederate state to be readmitted, are seated in Congress. February 28, 1871: The Second Enforcement Act becomes law.
May 17, 2024 · Print Celebrating the Passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in February 1870. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in February 1870. It prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race. Slaughterhouse Cases 1873.
2 days ago · The crucial point is that the definition of citizenship in the United States expanded substantially during Reconstruction era and by 1870 in principle, all African American men were American citizens. (It would be another half century until comparable rights were extended to black and white women.)
