In 1623, John Hemminges and Henry Condell, two of Shakespeareâs fellow actors in the Lord Chamberlainâs Men, collected 36 of Shakespeareâs plays and had them published in the First Folio. Pericles, Prince of Tyre is the only play attributed to Shakespeare that did not appear in the First Folio. Richard Burbage (1567-1619), known as a method actor, played the lead roles in many of Shakespeareâs plays, Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, and King Lear, as well as those written by Ben Jonson.
The evaluation of Grant's presidency can be split up into seven categories: policy leadership, crisis management, presidential appointments, foreign policy, character and integrity, public persuasion, and presidential vision. Grant did many good things for Domestic Policy in his presidency. He successfully readmitted the last four Confederate states into the Union with the help of Congress. He won the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, giving African Americans the right to vote.
Introduction. The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870.The 15th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that denied African Americans their right to vote under the 15th Amendment.