... the westward movement. Native Americans were driven further and further west. Between 1816 and 1836 alone, most of Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois, along with substantial areas of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, and Iowa were taken, usually by force, from various Native American tribes by the federal government. The westward movement also resulted in the spread of moralistic, individualistic, and traditionalistic ... promised a "New Deal" for the people of the United States. Roosevelt initiated an unprecedented series of reforms during his first hundred days in offic...

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... North and eleven states for the South, neither side wished the balance of power to be changed in favor for the other. The slave states were Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The free states were Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The ... state shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the Several States...." Free Negroes were citizens of many states, including the slave state...

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... Rights to African-Americans, immigrants, Roman-Catholics, Jews, socialists, communists, and anyone else who went against its beliefs or interfered in its work. The Klan was first established in Pulaski, Tennessee in May 1866 by Nathan Forrest, just two years after the end of the Civil War. Some white southerners, however, were still fighting the war and felt they would be ... been put to an end as soon as reported, but they were not. This was a result of the Klan accomplishing its objective of white supremacy in the south. By 1870, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia, where Klan supp...

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... ended the differences between ex-confederates and Republicans were at an unstable high. While President Lincoln was in office during the war, he appointed Andrew Johnson to military governor of Tennessee because he was the only senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal to the Union throughout. Johnson was the first to initiate a reconstruction policy in May of 1865. This policy ... slavery or to secede from the Union. Republicans feared the old southern ruling class would regain regional power and national influence by devising new ways to subjugate blacks (AP&P 460). Tennesse...

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... 's Bureau made political progress towards effective equality the Ku Klux Klan was greatly halting it socially. By 1871 Nathan Bedford Forrest estimated that the Klan had 40,000 members in Tennessee alone and around half a million in the South. As a result Chalmers believes the Klan became "an important force in Southern life29" suggesting effective equality was not gained by ... ...

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... granted to the freed African Americans, like the fourteenth amendment. This probably had something to do with the fact that Andrew Johnson was originally Governor of the southern state of Tennessee, even though that state seceded from the confederacy. He still had some of the southern views of African Americans. President Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction started with his Proclamation of ... ...

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... South Carolina. "That is just common sense (Horwitz). Several states do have some type of voter ID law, including Kansas, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Texas, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee all tightened their existing laws. On the other hand, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, and North Carolina rejected voter ID laws (USA Today). The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has ... ...

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... -class southerner who measured up almost exactly to the revisionists' descriptions of the poor white Democrats who used racism to end Reconstruction. Born in North Carolina, Johnson eventually moved to Tennessee, where he worked as a tailor. Like many of his racist fellow party-members, Johnson disliked Reconstruction and wanted to see it end in as quickly as way as possible. Johnson ... ...

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... life. It took the other group of states until even after the first shots of the Civil War were fired to secede from the Union. These states: North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas seceded only after Lincoln's call for troops forced them to choose between secession and fighting against their sister states of the Lower South. These states did not feel ... ...

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... by Vietnam and their determination in directing a march of the town upon Washington they increased the possibilities that been attempted against their life. April 4, 1968 King was murdered in Memphis (Tennessee). James Earl Ray, a white prisoner that had escaped from the prison, was arrested for the murder; declared guilty, in March of 1969 was sentenced to 99 years of prison. In ... ...

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The name Ku Klux Klan comes from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle, because in it is contained some of the unique characteristics of the White (or Aryan) race. In Tennessee,1865, The South had just lost the Civil War. Sadness was around everyone. Six young veterans, without money and needed something to bring them out of the depression and bring ... ...

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... grandsons of those eligible to vote before 1867, the year the Fifteenth Amendment had gone into effect," (Norton, 501). These measures, which were quickly adopted by all Southern states except Tennessee, turned out to be extremely successful. The white Southerners had effectively disenfranchised the African American by the turn of the century. With the Northern "victory" in the Civil War, African ... ...

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... undid all that had been done by President's Lincoln and Johnson. On March 2, 1867, Congress enacted the Reconstruction Act, which, supplemented later by three related acts, divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme. Johnson continued to oppose congressional policy, and when he insisted on the removal of the radical ... ...

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... -class southerner who measured up almost exactly to the revisionists' descriptions of the poor white Democrats who used racism to end Reconstruction. Born in North Carolina, Johnson eventually moved to Tennessee, where he worked as a tailor. Like many of his racist fellow party-members, Johnson disliked Reconstruction and wanted to see it end in as quickly as possible. Johnson frequently engaged ... ...

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