This offer was made only to those who were not government officials of the Confederacy or had taxable property valued at over $20,000. ... The Congress passed three Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and one in 1868. ... The postwar Southern government did not ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, and wanted compensation for lost slave property. ... The Republicans ruled for eight years and during that time if any of the states did not comply with the severe conditions given, Congress pass another act that imposed more stringent conditions. ... The Congress also passed the Ku Klux...

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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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However, Lincoln Vetoed this bill and it never passed. ... This Proclamation wouldn't allow the same people that Lincoln excluded, as well as anybody with taxable property worth up to $20,000. ... In early 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which granted citizenship to African Americans that were born in the states. ... Congress passed several bills to extend the rights of freed slaves and to keep the southern legislators from disturbing the reconstruction process....

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Literacy tests required voters to take and pass a test in order to be able to vote. Most freedmen did not know how to write and read and therefore could not pass the tests. ... The "grandfather clause" allowed a person whose grandfather had voted before 1867 to vote without having to pass a literacy test. ... Once again, in a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the property owner and against the African American petitioner. ...

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In 1828 Northern businessmen helped get the "Tariff Act" passed. ... The Constitution of the United States guaranteed the right to own property and protected against seizure of property. A slave was property. ...

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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." ... Once blacks were allowed to own property and land, there was a mass exodus from the white community. ...

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In fact, the Confiscation Act that was passed by Congress in 1862 authorized the seizure of the property of all persons in rebellion. ... President Lincoln, recognizing the dependence of the south for the economy passed the Morill Land Grant Act. ...

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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 black codes passed by the legislators of Southern states also suppressed blacks. ... High Confederate officials and all those owning property valued at more than $20,000 were excluded from amnesty, but were entitled to individual pardons granted directly by the president. ... Congress, believing that emancipation was not enough and the rights of former slaves were in need of protection, passed the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills. ... In its final form the Fourteenth Amendment defined American citizenship, (includingblacks) prohibited states to pass laws which hurt the natural...

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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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Then in 1787 the Constitution of the United States was passed creating a stronger central government to help the newly formed nation from collapsing. Civil In 1776 the Virginia Bill of Rights was passed granting rights that all men are born with and these rights that each individual possess can't be deprived of. ... The rights granted were very limited at the time and only belonged to the select few, rich white males and men who owned property. ... And in 1787 the Constitution was passed creating a stronger central government that unified the nation. ...

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A war that was so heroically fought and so victoriously ended shall pass into history a miserable failure. ... "Although the freedmen were no longer considered the property of the individual master, they were considered the slaves of society. ... Across the South, so-called "Black Codes" passed by the new state governments, imposed a range of oppressive measures that amounted to a second slavery for freed people. ... It would take another hundred years after that before laws were passed outlawing racial discrimination in employment, housing, public education, accommodations, and voting. ...

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In 1863 Confederate congress passed the Impressment Act which allowed officers to take food and animals and the owner would be repaid after the war. ... The confederacy also enacted a small property tax in 1861, this was not very successful. ...

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In addition to believing the acts to be unconstitutional, Johnson also vetoed the measures passed by Congress in the hopes that it would create a split between Radical and moderate Republicans. ... 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. ... Wasting no time, Congress passed the First Reconstruction Act on March 2, 1867. ... They felt that the government could only guarantee the equalit...

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The Civil War destroyed property worth billions of dollars, brought freedom to over four million slaves, and opened sores that haven't healed completely to this day. ... No state had the power to control trade among the different states, and there was no way to carry out the laws that congress passed or to bring justice to anyone who would not obey these laws (Hauptly 16). ... "Representatives of the northern states claimed that if the southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted towards voting representation in Congress (Harrison 1)". ... A tariff tax was pass...

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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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One of the amazing facts of being an American is that no person should be denied the right to own land or property , because as stated in The Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal with certain rights like life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ... That's a luxury that Americans get when we turn 16 and they fight for the freedoms all American women gained when congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution on June 4, 1919. ...

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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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Through persistence, African Americans were able to pass the Civil rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, along with many more legal achievements1. ... With this type of organization and purpose, black fraternal groups were able to pass the 15th amendment on May 19,1870 which allowed freed slaves the right to vote. ... In response, the white fraternal groups tried to pass legislation to outlaw black fraternal groups, attacking African American rights. ...

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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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In his view, the Federalists, the founders mostly out of the Northern states, supported a strong, centralized government and favored the Constitution during its drafting and ratification. 8 These were individuals whose primary economic interests were tied to personal property. ...

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