You have been arrested for a crime you did not commit, but the state is saying you did. You have a right to have a trial in which 12 people get to decide your guilt or innocence. This right to have a trial by jury is given to you by which amendment?

How did southern states respond to the ratification of the fourteenth amendment?

How did the life of sharecroppers affect their children? children went to school because the farms were small, with little work, children had to work on the farm, so they rarely went to school children learned skilled professions as they worked around the farm. children left home when they became adults because the land wasn't theirs.

Why do you think the delegates to the first contintal congress believed that refusing to buy british goods would their cause?