The struggle between state and federal government is a large part of American history. ... Nor did any of the new governments allow African Americans any political rights or provide in any effective way for black education. This was resulting in each state passing its old slave code, which applied to African Americans. ... The amendment's most important provision, was to defined an American citizen as anyone born in the United States or naturalized, thereby automatically making African Americans citizens. ... Resulting in, the final amendment left loopholes that eventually allowed souther...

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The years following 1783, welcomed an America free of British rule and taxation - an isolated America with few enemies and vast natural resources. The Treaty of Paris entitled America to large new land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. ... The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. ... Without question, the wealth of Southern plantations, and the Northern states, were directly associated with the exploitation of African slave labor. ... By the end of 1783, an estimated 5000 African soldiers and sailors had fought alon...

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The African American citizens have faced an insurmountable paradox. ... African American citizens have endured the unequal terms set by the Constitution. ... Although African Americans have gained many rights and come a long way since the Civil War, there are still issues in today's society when it comes to poverty and income. ... Although many Americans think that hard work will make them rich enough in order to live the American Dream, the sad fact is that most Americans are not rich and will never reach beyond the poverty line, regardless of hard they work. ... But it is also the Ame...

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However the strengths Democracy provides were illuminated, through the surge of female evangelists, the increase of amendments granting Women and African-American rights, and the growth of the majority's power. ... Women's rights and African-American rights tended to go together, so, when blacks became eligible to vote they helped fight for women's equality. ... This attribute is one of the cornerstones of American democracy and policy. ... One such example is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in which this book gave whites a look at the more human aspects of Afr...

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After the law was put into place African Americans still faced the struggles of segregation and discrimination. ... It was obvious that the 14th amendment did not bring equality nor stop African Americans from being discriminated against for jobs and getting into colleges. ... King complained that many states still discriminated against African American voting. ... By January, 1966, more than 90,000 new African American voters had been registered to vote in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. ... It took nearly 200 years to achieve equal rights for African Americans and ...

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The revolution had a more immediate impact on the lives of African Americans allowing the growth of many free African American communities. ... Political The revolution generated radical changes in the principles, opinions, and sentiments of the American people. ... This led to the creation of the Constitution and laid the framework for the American nation. ... Women weren't the ones who had acquired freedom from the revolution, African Americans also benefited. Though slavery hadn't been abolished in the south, in the north many African Americans were able to establish free ...

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Yes, America has become a nation that lives in the grip of mass hysteria. Due to the increasing amount of terrorist attacks and hostile racial differences across the globe, and even hear on the home front, America has become cautious and wary to these kinds of incidents. Whether it is shutting down schools because of terroristic threats, refusing to allow Muslims to travel on an airplane, or some of the American populous harassing Syrian refugees, America has become more fearful than it has been in quite some time. ... One case puts the citizens, more than the government, into a mass hysteria ...

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Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. ... And last thing that prevents what's happening in Hong Kong in America are the American people. ... For example, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, led by black Americans, to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and to secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the constitutional amendments adopted after the Civil War. Basically black Americans had a problem and did something about it In conclusion, the thing that prevents what...

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In the early times of the American Revolution, before the formal creation of a joint American army. ... In the 1840's there were many riots, and mob protests that were usually aimed towards African – American, abolitionist, Mormons, and Catholics. ... While the republicans in the north believed that the African – Americans those in the south resisted the idea. Mississippi and South Carolina even went as far as to create these so called "black codes" which were laws created to limit the freedom of the African – American access to courts, trading, and even forced...

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The Constitution was conceived at a time when women were not represented by government, and African Americans had no political input. ... Today, America is a political leader. ... People want to know whom to blame when there is a problem in America. ... The biggest concern facing eighteenth century America was political privilege;! today it is equal opportunities for African Americans and women, as well as many special interest groups (such as homosexuals). ...

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In December of 1865, just months after the close the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed and forbid the owning of slaves in all parts of the United States, fulfilling Lincoln's dream of equality for African Americans. ... This was the beginning of the African American Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was just one of many long-range effects of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which acquired to gain equal rights for African American citizens of the United States. ... Without his extraordinary decree on J...

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Furthermore, the suspicion of big government evident in the constitution is a reflection of a dominant strain of thought in American society. ... Such a flagrant example of the derogation of rights occurred during World War 2 with the internment of Japanese-American civilians. ... Whilst most other major developed countries have a welfare state of some kind American welfare provision is far less generous. ... During the 1950s and 1960s momentum grew for equal rights for African-Americans, and attempts at legislation were made. ... Evidence suggests though, that the current constitutional b...

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Part I: Provide a history of the formation of the constitution and of early American government through Jefferson's Presidency. Conclude this section with a description of the structure of American government [all branches] and politics at that time. The history of American government starts several year before there was even an American government with a series of events mainly between the British colonies and Great Britain developing into problems that would cause a change of power to the colonists themselves. ... With all of the troops staying in these colonies they did not offer m...

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America's first constitution, however, only lasted ten years until fifty-five delegates met in Philadelphia with the same common purpose: to preserve the American union, protect the American democracy from abroad, and curb the unrestrained social reformation rampant in other states. America's newly established independence awakened many privileges, as well as restrictions. ... The list of possible nations ran short, for not many countries were willing to trade with the unpopular Americans. Spain, still resentful for losing the French and Indian War, closed the Mississippi River t...

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The 2008 American presidential election was unlike any other, in a number of ways. There was the possibility of a female vice-president pitted against the possibility of an African-American president - both potential history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. ... The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. ... And, in the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online. ...

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The Radical Reconstruction from 1865 until 1877 was one that brought about major controversy within the recently reunited America. ... This proposal was revolutionary because it was the first time blacks were officially recognized as humans and American citizens. ... Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment provided the first legal definition of citizenship in America. ... Therefore, these new revolutionary regulations permitted the government to take action against any attempt to deny African Americans their right to suffrage. ... Though ephemeral, many changes took place during the span of...

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In Howard Zinn's 'History is A Weapon', he reexamines the true nature of the American independence war as well as the revolution at the time. ... That is, there are as much injustice conducted by the American government with regard to racial and gender issues as the old British colonists. ... The last sentence from chapter 4 of Howard Zinn's book, "tyranny is tyranny let it com from whom it may" (Zinn, cup 4), concludes his central theme of the chapter that the American Revolution was not an attempt of saving the country from colonialism with a legalized and demo...

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In American states, an elected governor is the head of the executive branch. ... The judicial branches in American state governments are typically led by the state supreme court, which deals with the appeals that lower-level state courts might have. ... All but six American governors have the ability to veto one or more specific lines in a bill while letting the rest of it pass into law, a power known as the line-item veto. ...

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But herein the sad contradiction is stated: African slaves are used for political advantage but yet are not given the right of a citizen, to be free and vote. ... Northern delegates pushed to end slave trade congressionally because it contrasted Americas" republican ideals, as Luther of Maryland said "It is inconsistent with the principle of the revolution and dishonorable to the American character to have such a feature in the Constitution". ... Amendment X can be interpreted as the final statement contributing to the future of African slaves in the new republic. ...

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The Jacksonian belief, "New Democracy", promoted suffrage for all white males, but no benefits of individual liberties were given to women or Native, African Americans. ... The rights of free African American were restricted because of the position Jackson held about slavery. ... Jacksonian Democrats were guardians of individual liberties because rights were not gained by groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, and women during his presidency. ...

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After gaining independence, our founding fathers created an extremely unique, and revolutionary government in order to set up a social contract between America and its people. Purposefully not trying to be anything like their previously rulers the British, Americans created a new one from the ideas of republicanism. ... The last thing on the agenda was a want for more government influence being placed in the hands of the people and for America to become the democracy that the founding fathers envisioned. ... Not long after WWII, during a time known as the Great Society Era, Congress passed thr...

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Though the Constitution maintained the stronghold grip on suppressing the rights of African slaves, it provided a radical change form state sovereignty to federalism while respecting the rights of states. ... Most importantly, the Constitution defined "We the people" as the free Americans and excluded the slaves and Indians. ... They did not receive the principle of the consent of the governed like all of the free citizens of America did. The views of the American Revolution on slavery lasted all the way to the writing of the Constitution and greatly impacted the founders. ...

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Although the Supreme Court decided that African Americans, free or not, weren't citizens and therefore couldn't sue in public court, as well as stating the federal government couldn't regulate slavery in territories acquired after the creation of the United States, it was one of the first clear examples of due process of law. ... These first ten amendments are the very basis of American life, and if you were to take away even one or two of them, life as the current generation of Americans know it will be altered forever, perhaps irreversibly. ... Freedom of speech, press, and ...

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A judgment of discrimination can be defined as a determination that an individual or a group of individuals, for example African Americans, women, or handicapped people, have been denied constitutional rights. ... And in 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act expanded the definition of disability in such a way to include people with AIDS. ...

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A judgment of discrimination can be defined as a determination that an individual or a group of individuals, for example African Americans, women, or handicapped people, have been denied constitutional rights. ... And in 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act expanded the definition of disability in such a way to include people with AIDS. ...

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