... aided in that drift to the right. Eisenhower served two terms in office and oversaw, perhaps, the most conservative era of the twentieth century, certainly since the pre World War I years. Eisenhower pursued a foreign policy designed to "contain" Soviet expansion. He did so by vastly increasing military spending, resulting in a nuclear arms race, and by practicing the principle of ... , liberalism and the counter-culture of the hippies, yippies and the peace movement dominated the political landscape in the United States, resulting in vast changes still felt today. The Civil Rights Movem...

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Jefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, "You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... Is the slave to be benefited by it? Not ... 117) It was sign that Congress, and its northern constituents, had finally lost interest in the cause. As the opportunity for economic advancement increased after the Civil War, the North felt as though it had done its part and both the President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. With ... out to be extremely successful. The white Southerners had effectively disenfranchised th...

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... main reason in drawing its district lines. Racial gerrymandering was first used as a way to avoid implementing the Fifteenth Amendment and therefore continue racial discrimination in the South after the Civil War. In 1876 the Supreme Court made a decision that was a major setback to the citizenship rights of African Americans. In U.S. v. Reese the Court held that the 15th ... and Louisiana, believed that they had an obligation to maximize the number of minority districts, especially after the Voting Rights Section of the Department of Justice refused to pre-clear initial plans from those...

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