The slaves now were considered men not property, so instead counting as 3/5th a man they now counted as full people. ... Theoretically, the South could reunite with the Northern democrats, eventually taking Congress and pass laws that would virtually re-enslave blacks through the Black Codes. ... The Veto-proof Republican Congress passed the Radical Reconstruction Act in 1867, which altered the process of how states were readmitted. ... The 15th Amendment was passed to ensure blacks would be able to vote in the 1870 election, and by the end of 1870 all states had reestablished acceptable gover...

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(Grant 1968, 118-19) In 1864, Congress passes a bill, requiring voters to swear they have never fought against the Union, allowing them to participate in the reconstruction of their state's government. ... (Hine, Hine, and Harrold 2000, 267) There were many policies and acts passed to assure blacks civil rights were not violated. The 1870 act outlawed disguises, and protected civil rights, the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871 deemed it a Federal offense to interfere with an individuals civil rights, and granted equal protection under the law regardless of race The Civil Rights Act p...

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Due to this belief congress tried to pass the Wade-Davis Bill, where fifty percent of voters had to take an "ironclad" oath that they had never voluntarily supported the Confederacy, Lincoln vetoed this bill. ... His proclamation disenfranchised all southern military and civil officers and all those who owned property worth more than $20,000. ... As a result of the current policies, congress passed the Reconstruction Act also known as Congressional Reconstruction. ...

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Due to Johnson's resistance, Congress took it a step further and then passed the 14th Amendment. ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws... To counteract the South's actions, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867. ... In response to the newly passed Tenure of Office Act passed in 1867 (which required Senate approval ...

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They began reducing black politicians, reducing state officials salaries, cutting state and property taxes, tenants didn't get any benefits, laborers, tenants, and small farmers paid taxes, and the poor could not afford schooling anymore. ... After being accommodated to "equal", African-Americans still did not have the right to vote, this did not come until the following year in 1869, when the fifteenth amendment was passed by Congress stating "no one will be denied the right to vote on behalf of their race". ...

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The marital and property laws supported the idea that women were the inferior sex. ... All wealth passed to their husbands; if they worked the money belonged to the husband. ... The 1870 Married Women's Property Act allowed women to keep their own earnings, personal property and money under £200 bequeathed to them. ... In America women were given legal status when married in 1848 under the Women's Property Act. ... This however, was only in New York, but soon after other states passed similar laws. ...

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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... Whites saw emancipation as the reason for loss of the nation's largest concentration of private property." (Current, pg.88) Planters went from owning blacks as property, to negotiating a wage in exchange for their labor. ...

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While all this was going on, the Republicans in Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the basic civil rights of all citizens regardless of color (Encyclopedia Britannica). ... Next Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment prohibiting discrimination in voting on account of race, which also had little effect on the South (Encyclopedia Britannica). ... Other states imposed stringent property qualifications for voting or enacted complex poll taxes (Encyclopedia Britannica). ... Congress tries time and time again to pass laws to help blacks became equal to whites by passin...

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Dawes Act:1887 Congress passed this act deciding to give each native american a farm. ... The act was passed by the congress in 1882, which suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years. ... In 1881, Samuel Dodd set up a Standard Oil Trust to manage all Standard's properties. ... At first the main objective of white supremacy organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, the Constitutional Union Guards and the Knights of the White Camelia was to stop black people from voting. ongress passed the Ku Klux Act and became law on 20th April, 1871...

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This triggered many new hate crime laws to be passed, and also got Moises Kaufman to take members of his Tectonic Theater Project, to interview people in Laramie. ... A hate crime is defined by the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2000 as, "An additional (felony) charge added to a criminal offense against persons (or property) motivated by hate or bias against the victim(s) due to race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation." ...

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They believe in the concepts of private property, free enterprise, representative government, parental rights, freedom of speech, right to trial by jury, right to address the government for a redress of grievances. ... Johnson used the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the Klan, resulting in the imprisonment of several Klan members (The World Book of Encyclopedia, 310) The biggest threat against the KKK was the Force Bill which passed in 1871. ... One major effect was the disappearance of the Klan shortly after the bill passed. ...

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In an effort to once again limit the rights of the newly freemen and women, many states passed discriminatory legislation known to some as 'Black Codes'. ... In response to these unsettling decisions made by the Southern States and their use of the ˜Black Codes', Congress passed several civil rights acts in an "effort to remedy the limitations of the Thirteenth Amendment. ... Guaranteeing that no state would make laws to abridge "the privileges and immunities of citizens" or deprive any person of "life, liberty or property without due process of law," or "deny any person...

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Hate crimes are serious and well-documented problems but remain inadequately recognized Hate crimes are classified as ethnic intimidation and are defined as any crime against a person including arson, criminal mischief and other property destruction, criminal trespass or harassment by communication or address that is committed with malicious intention toward the race, color, religion, or national origin of another. ... The freedom of speech is allowing hate groups to publish and pass out pamphlets glorifying hate and white power. ...

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Hate crimes are serious and well-documented problems but remain inadequately recognized Hate crimes are classified as ethnic intimidation and are defined as any crime against a person including arson, criminal mischief and other property destruction, criminal trespass or harassment by communication or address that is committed with malicious intention toward the race, color, religion, or national origin of another. ... The freedom of speech is allowing hate groups to publish and pass out pamphlets glorifying hate and white power. ...

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The leader of this church was Fred Phelps, before he passed in 2014, and the forty members affiliated with this church are Phelps' family members. ... None of the picketers entered church property or went to the cemetery. ...

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In 1991, the NAACP passed a resolution that stated the Southern Cross was a racist symbol that reminded Blacks about slavery. It also stated the flag was offensive to all Americans and should be removed from all public properties. ...

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Ward believes "the Emancipation Proclamation stands as a monumental landmark in the advancement of liberty1" In contrast US history writes, "the search for equal rights was far from over with the passage of the 14th Amendment2" as the Supreme Court did nothing to ensure that the 14th Amendment, which stated that no "State [should] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,3" was made a meaningful reality. ... Rather, he once told a black audience that there "must be a position of superior and inferior.4" James A Rawley clarifies this stating that ...

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The Past and Present Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan was formed at the end of the Civil War during the Reconstruction period. It was viewed as a vigilante group created to intimidate black people or white people who were there to help them. Over the years, the KKK has evolved into a different type...

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