Select all that apply to the Civil War Era Northerners Question 2 options: "Yankees" "Rebels" considered the practice of slavery a "way of life" fought to end slavery U. S. Constitution authority over States Rights did not believe nation could be balance of slave states and free states created the Confederate States of America States Rights had authority over U. S. Constitution

new evidence is discovered.

oversights and errors are corrected,

new technology is applied to evidence.

regarding the law, the 15th amendment was specifically designed thinking in the rights of black free men.

even though ratified on february 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th amendment would not be fully applied for a long time.poll taxes and literacy tests would allow southern states disenfranchise african americans. only in 1965 the voting rights for african americans would be actually able to vote in the south.

in 1965, president johnson signed the voting rights act, which aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented african americans from voting as it was guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the u.s. constitution.

after the senate and the house passed different bills and deadlock threatened, a compromise bill was worked out with the following provisions: (1) missouri was admitted as a slave state and maine (formerly part of massachusetts).