Main articles: American Civil War and Battle of Fort Sumter. Texas Image of Lincoln being shot by Booth while sitting in a theater booth! After the Revolution genuinely democratic politics became possible in the former colonies the rights of the people were incorporated into state constitutions Concepts of liberty individual rights equality among men and hostility toward corruption became incorporated as core values of liberal republicanism the greatest challenge to the old order in Europe was the challenge to inherited political power and the democratic idea that government rests on the consent of the governed the example of the first successful revolution against a European empire and the first successful establishment of a republican form of democratically elected government provided a model for many other colonial peoples who realized that they too could break away and become self-governing nations with directly elected representative government. A few prominent Founding Fathers were anti-clerical Christians such as Thomas Jefferson, who constructed the Jefferson Bible and Benjamin Franklin. .
The prospect of disenfranchisement caused immediate concern One voice from a public meeting in January 1801 before the bill's passage compared their situation to those who fought against British taxation without representation in the Revolutionary War -- 20 years prior. Despite these complaints the bill went into effect as written Given exclusive and absolute political control Congress did not act to restore any of these rights until the 1960s the District still has no voting representation in Congress and the decisions of its long-sought local government established in 1973 are still subject to close Congressional review annulment and budget control; . Most Indians did not participate directly in the war except for warriors and bands associated with four of the Iroquois tribes in New York and Pennsylvania which allied with the British the British did have other allies especially in the upper Midwest They provided Indians with funding and weapons to attack American outposts Some Indians tried to remain neutral seeing little value in joining what they perceived to be a European conflict and fearing reprisals from whichever side they opposed the Oneida and Tuscarora tribes among the Iroquois of central and western New York supported the American cause the British provided arms to Indians who were led by Loyalists in war parties to raid frontier settlements from the Carolinas to New York They killed many settlers on the frontier especially in Pennsylvania and New York's Mohawk Valley, Democratic Representative David Wilmot introduced the Wilmot Proviso which would prohibit slavery in new territory acquired from Mexico Wilmot's proposal passed the House but not the Senate and it spurred further hostility between the factions.[citation needed]. . The continued involuntary servitude took various forms but the primary forms included convict leasing peonage and sharecropping with the latter eventually encompassing poor whites as well By the 1930s whites constituted most of the sharecroppers in the South Mechanization of agriculture had reduced the need for farm labor and many blacks left the South in the Great Migration, Congressional Research Service 5 Other Washington properties, For more than thirty years however the 1776 New Jersey State Constitution gave the vote to "all inhabitants" who had a certain level of wealth including unmarried women and blacks (not married women because they could not own property separately from their husbands) until in 1807 when that state legislature passed a bill interpreting the constitution to mean universal white male suffrage excluding paupers!
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