Congress established the Freedman Bureau (1865) and the Civil Rights Act (1866) to protect the newly freed African-Americans. ... The "New" Southern government did not guarantee civil rights, schools, or economic protection for the newly freed slaves. ... The Congress wanted to ensure that the newly freed slaves equal protection and that the treated fairly, but the Northern officials had just as many fears and worries about how they would deal with the new influx of African-Americans into the Northern work force. ... The Congress added the Thirteenth, Fourt...

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To the South, all the benefits of protection were going to Northern manufacturers, and while the country as a whole grew richer, South Carolina grew poorer because the planters at to pay higher prices. ... He meant that nullification or secession would be an act of war. The President declared that the act to nullify would be on "the brink of insurrection and treason."...

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Also Congress" Freedmen's Bureau Bill provided shelter and provision for ex-slaves and protection of their rights in court, as well as the Civil Rights Act, defining all persons born in the U.S. as citizens. ... In a final humiliating gesture, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which stripped the president of the power to remove federal officials without the Senate's approval. ...

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Jackson immediately vetoed the Civil Rights Act as soon as he could. ... The Act was met with much opposition. ... This led to the passage of the Enforcement Act in 1870. ... The last of the Reconstruction Act was the Civil Rights Act of 1875. ... -Civil Rights Act of 1875. ...

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(L) Other bills were passed such like the Freedmen's Bureau act.... This act obligated the south to start over again and to began to reform. ... (T517) The black people did not get any protection from the government in till the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited racism in public places....

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A Northern victory would mean ultimate freedom for slaves; a Southern victory would insure the protection of slavery in all Confederate states. ... Congress was busy passing legislation such as the Morrill Tariff Act, the National Banking Act, and the Homestead Act of 1862. ...

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A respectable group who educated blacks and taught them how to be productive members of society, was the Union League; also, the Union League provided protection for blacks in danger of being terrorized. ... The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was soon brought into play. It was "an act to provide for the more efficient government in the Rebel States." ... This act stated that there was no legal government in any of the Ex-Confederate states except Tennessee. ... Life was tried to make much safer for Southern Blacks with the Force Acts and the Ku Klux Klan Act. ...

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American Industries were no longer child industries, they had grown and were now needed more and more protection from foreign trade competition. ... He also worked out the Deposit act and the Specie Circular act to keep capitalist and wealthy politicians who used the fluctuating cash value to remove large sum's of money from the bank. The Specie Circular act required that all land would be bought in gold and silver pieces. The Deposit act raised the amount of banks that were deposit banks. ...

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" On the contrary, in the same document, the women wrote to the mayor of the city stating, "We have agreed and are willing to pay $25 or $50 for licenses as protection, so we can control the washing for the city. ... "The man who will not fight for the protection of his wife and children is a coward and deserves to be ill treated. ... " He continues to tell them to act with the law of retaliation: an eye for an eye. ... Baker's small act of resistance against racist White terrorists, Whites were rendered unsuccessful, and it shouldn't go unnoticed. ... This courag...

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He spoke against proposals to raise the tariff rate; he opposed measures that encouraged army officers to give aid and protection to fugitive slaves; he spoke against the bills to abolish slavery.# Vallandigham believed that these measures would prevent the restoration of the Union. ... He had supported the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and the National Banking Act of 1863, but he opposed Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch's plan to retire the greenbacks in circulation and pushed a compromise plan for resuming specie payment.# John Sherman was responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act i...

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The prison was wrong for stripping the men of their clothes, it was an unnecessary act and it led to the deaths of thousands of innocent men who were fighting for what the believed in. ... To get protection inside the prison, an inmate would have to join one of these gangs. ...

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His dangerous environment and his instinct of self-protection led him to react the way he did. ... The newspapers and town gossip led him to enlist, the actions of the other soldiers made him stay and also made him flee, his shame made him act braver, etc. ... Even though Henry changes into a brave man and becomes a hero, only the reader knows what led him to his fate and to act the way he did. ...

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Although they were on opposites sides of the Civil War, both men had strong feelings for the protection of their land. ... He generally acted as though the other two branches of government did not exist. ... Davis influenced the signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which favored the south and increased the bitterness of the struggle over slavery. ...

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The American presence began to grow throughout Mexico and it grew even stronger after the U.S civil war. This was happening because the Union Generals such as Grant and Sherman were leading the establishments of may of the major Railroads because of their victory of the South. The south's defeat was...

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Sometimes, six or seven redcoats would demand food, shelter, and protection from one family. ... This led to the Civil Rights Act, but it was not passed until protest and boycotts were such big problems that something had to be done. ...

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Eckert be assigned to him for protection (Bishop 161). ... Furthermore, there will always be questions as to why Lincoln was denied Eckert and why Stanton acted so strangely about the matter of assigning Eckert a as bodyguard for Lincoln. ...

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(Current, pg.106) White Southerners believed that these laws were for the Negro's protection, because they forced him to fulfill agreements, to maintain a home for his family, and to seek and secure employment. ... Often an act of violence by Freedman against whites were relatively few compared to those committed by whites against Negroes. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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This act traded Maine as a free slave state so that Missouri would be allowed to own slaves which gave slaves in the selected northern states their freedom. ... In 1854, The Kansas-Nebraska Act began a rival between the anti- and pro- slavery states on border line territories. This act came into place when settlers wanted to move out into what is now known today as Nebraska, but would not able to legally hold land. This act also gave the power to each territory to decide the issue of slavery based on popular sovereignty. ... She sought protection and had hopes Dr. ...

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The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 legislated this doctrine. ... Krannawitter points out, the "Southern demand for federal slave protection represented a demand for an unprecedented expansion of federal power." ... Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress." the National Banking Act and the authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Ten...

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