... Amendment quickly established the first movement of civil rights, rights that could not be taken away due to race. The backlash created by this amendment triggered much change and helped spark the "Gilded Age." The government was acknowledging black freedmen as citizens of the United States, erasing the line that divided black and white citizens. Without black workers in the field ... the agricultural industry prevail? As this was debated, alternatives to the customary plantation production process needed to be reformed, making way for the industrial revolution. Another important amendm...

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... buildings, or whistle jigs to milestones without provoking any significant reaction. But when a community is angrily debating issues such as 'Whose law?' and 'Whose order?' such gestures can spark an uprising and so it did in the Six Counties in January 1969." Michael Farrell, one of the founders of the People's Democracy, believed that RUC baton charges were ... ...

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