... districts, each having constitutional conventions in which blacks would participate, backed by protection by fed troops. these conventions were mandated to draft new constitutions, which had to include provisions for aan suffrage. Newly elected state legislatures were also required to ratify the 14th amendment as a condition for their readmission to the union. - congress overrode pres veto to enshrine aa suffrage into ... ...

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... was admitted to the bar of the General Court of Virginia. In May he took his seat as the representative from Albemarle County in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Edmund Pendleton and Jefferson's uncle, Peyton Randolph, both prominent planters in the House, acted as his mentors. "In 1772 January 1 Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, aged twenty-three. Her dowry almost ... ...

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