... they could join the fight against slavery. The South did the same, also collecting money to help emigrants to settle in Kansas. The sons of John Brown were among those who decided to leave their homes in the North and travel to Kansas. Frederick, Owen, and Salmon Brown left Ohio in ... the home of Charles Robinson, a well-known abolitionist. After two days, the raid ended with the Border Ruffians in control after their triumph. When John Brown heard about this, he rallied his company, the Pottawatomie Rifles, which was made up of about forty men. They left on May 22nd for the thirty- .....

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... they could join the fight against slavery. The South did the same, also collecting money to help emigrants to settle in Kansas. The sons of John Brown were among those who decided to leave their homes in the North and travel to Kansas. Frederick, Owen, and Salmon Brown left Ohio in ... the home of Charles Robinson, a well-known abolitionist. After two days, the raid ended with the Border Ruffians in control after their triumph. When John Brown heard about this, he rallied his company, the Pottawatomie Rifles, which was made up of about forty men. They left on May 22nd for the thirty- .....

• Word Count: 1858
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and argued, in Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Louisiana, that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The judge at the trial was John Howard Ferguson, a lawyer from Massachusetts who had previously declared the Separate Car Act "unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states." In Plessy's case, however, he decided that the state ... Plessy guilty of refusing to leave the white car. Plessy appealed to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, which upheld Ferguson's decision. In 1896, the Supreme Court of the United States h...

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... of establishing Black Codes to limit Black suffrage.3 The Black Codes were undeniably racist: they restricted the civil rights of ex-slaves and in many areas left them completely disenfranchised. John Hope Franklin gives a primary example of the racism associated with the conservative Democratic party in his book Reconstruction: After the Civil War. An ex-Confederate army colonel from Virginia, R. E. Withers ... end in as quickly as way as possible. Johnson frequently engaged in racist discussions about Reconstruction and the status of Blacks in American society. In one such discussion,...

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... would use power to reunite the states and occupy and collect taxes that belong to the government. The confederate government of the south found it self in a dilemma when they heard the news, either to start the war or allow the rebellion to collapse, they chose to start the war by attacking Fort Sumter on April 12 1861, which left Fort ... Lee surrendered Lincoln addressed the nation from the front of the white house he described to the people how his heart is acing and glad in the same time, while John Wilkes booth the infamous and unknown actor was standing in the crowd, this man oppo...

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