What bias did benjamin franklin display when he said, "why should pennsylvania,
founded by the english, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to
germanize us instead of our anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or
customs any more than they can acquire our complexion? "

booker t. washington was an educator who established the tuskegee institute. washington argued that african americans should learn trades that would offer them the opportunity to be progressive citizens. instead of fighting against discrimination, washington argued that african americans should use their education and knowledge to become self-sufficient in american society and not in competition with white americans.

w.e.b du bois was the founder of the niagara movement and later the naacp, du bois disagreed with washington. he argued that african americans should consistently fight for racial equality.

ida b. wells was a journalist who wrote about the horrors of lynching in the south. wells work could be considered muckraking as it led to the development of the anti-lynching campaign.

what does the elastic cause give congress the power to do

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