... in the 1950s and 1960s. While originally constructed to deal with the rights of freedmen, cases such as Brown versus the board of education, turned to a quite similar issue. Its interpretation came to be the legal heart of the civil rights movement of the `60s. The fourteenth amendment was arguably the most important of all. It radically changed the definition of the United ... organization which fought to deny civil rights and return the recently emancipated African-American slaves to a condition of servitude. The KKK's history of violence and political manipulation need not be recounted...

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Civil War historian Shelby Foote describes the American Civil War as the most important event in American History. The Civil War was, at the very least, one of the most controversial periods in American history. Because of this, there are many theories that explain the cause. Most conventional theories attribute the causes of this conflict were rooted in economic, social, political and geographic differences. There are strong arguments for ... arguments against each of these. Tensions over the institution of slavery had been building for decades, and every time a new state in the West was add...

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... of radical reconstruction acts. (Gillon, Matson). One of the first of these acts was the Fourteenth Amendment. This amendment, passed in June 1866, declared that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" were "citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside" and were guaranteed "equal protection" and "due process" under the law. This amendment was a sign of ... holding federal or state offices. Moderate Republicans, however, added a clause that allowed Congress to make individual exceptions when it wished. The next great event in the history of the Radical ...

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The Emancipation Proclamation was a critical part of President Lincoln's term in office. Although it is one of the most important documents in United States history, it is also, quite possibly, the most misunderstood. Its text explains key terms surrounding the Civil War, the importance of slavery to the war effort on both sides, Lincoln's efforts to regain the support of the rebellious ... notifying him that he had captured the city of Savannah, Georgia, completing his 300-mile "March to the Sea"" that had begun in Atlanta on Nov. 16. Sherman, who had captured Atlanta in September 1864, bel...

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... history. It was waged in 10,000 places-from Valverde, New Mexico, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than three million Americans fought in it and more than 600,00 men died in it. It was not only the immensity of the fight but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the strategies of destruction which made the Civil War an event ... , many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down. As the result, controlling over slaves was very important for the Southern. But the Northern were opponent of slavery since the slavery population took less than 10 p...

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... were one of the most important issues to resolve, in which war occurred unluckily to resolve this issue, and that which Lincoln was unhappy to have happened but it looked like it was necessary, in order to save the Union ... Period" is that of great conflicts and concerns among the now free black men and Negroes" freedom in general, and mostly about the state's decision seceding from the Union. Before the War the South was at a good economic condition, ... , as the government members see it he wasn't quite the guy to be leading the United States. The responsibility for these collapse in...

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