The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Joint Select Committee majority report were responses to an escalating civil unrest during the Reconstruction Period of the United States. ... The Ku Klux Klan Act and the Joint Select Committee's majority report can be seen as succeeding "in suppressing the Klan's activities in those regions where it was enforced."" ... The act "established federal criminal penalties for individuals conspiring to deprive a class of persons equal protection of law " and gave the President the right to "employ armed forces for enforcement. ... The Ku Klux Klan Act ...

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Republicans were able to override Johnson's vetoes of both the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the first Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act said that all African Americans to be U.S. citizens and also attempted to provide a legal shield against the operation of the southern states" Black Codes. ... It "declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens and it obligated the states to respect the rights of U.S. citizens and provide them with "equal protection of the law's and "due process of law."" (Amsco- Pg. 294) There was also the Reconstruction Act ...

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The Radical program is also said to have been "the method by which the "Masters of Capital" . . . expected to exploit the resources of the southern states" behind federal protection. ... This amendment was a sign of the growing belief in the Republican party that national legislation was necessary for the protection of freedmen. ... Wasting no time, Congress passed the First Reconstruction Act on March 2, 1867. ... In 1866, Republicans tried to address this problem by passing the Southern Homestead Act. ... Another possible reason for this act's failure was the lack of overwhelming suppor...

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Congress established the Freedman Bureau (1865) and the Civil Rights Act (1866) to protect the newly freed African-Americans. ... The "New" Southern government did not guarantee civil rights, schools, or economic protection for the newly freed slaves. ... The Congress wanted to ensure that the newly freed slaves equal protection and that the treated fairly, but the Northern officials had just as many fears and worries about how they would deal with the new influx of African-Americans into the Northern work force. ... The Congress added the Thirteenth, Fourt...

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To the South, all the benefits of protection were going to Northern manufacturers, and while the country as a whole grew richer, South Carolina grew poorer because the planters at to pay higher prices. ... He meant that nullification or secession would be an act of war. The President declared that the act to nullify would be on "the brink of insurrection and treason."...

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Radical Republicans were unsympathetic toward the South, they wanted the Union restored , the abolition of slavery, protection for the freed men, and also to retain their majority in Congress. ... They weren't allowed to vote, and there were no needs for their education and economic protection. ... In 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which President Johnson banned, but Congress passed it over his veto. This act protected the rights of the freed men from the Black Codes, extended suffrage to blacks, and extended the life of the Freedmen's Bureau. ... Blacks could n...

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Homer Plessy was a "passenger [on a train] between two stations within the states of Louisiana. " however he was "seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth black " --the amount of African American in his blood was hardly visible on his complexion-- and was arrested and put on trial for sitting in the "White " section of the train and violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act. Plessy went to court and argued that the Separate Car Act violated the "equal " protection of the law clause Fourteenth Amendment. ... Supreme Court conclude that state laws requiring "separate but equal schools violated t...

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Also Congress" Freedmen's Bureau Bill provided shelter and provision for ex-slaves and protection of their rights in court, as well as the Civil Rights Act, defining all persons born in the U.S. as citizens. ... In a final humiliating gesture, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which stripped the president of the power to remove federal officials without the Senate's approval. ...

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into 5 main districts,, in which were patrolled by Union soldiers. ... The Veto-proof Republican Congress passed the Radical Reconstruction Act in 1867, which altered the process of how states were readmitted. First, they had to accept the 14th amendment, which recognized blacks voting rights and gave protections for freed blacks in their state constitutions. ...

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The 14th amendment of the United States Constitution was initially based on the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted after the Civil War and defeat of the southern states, which were fighting to maintain slavery. ... The 14th amendment guarantees to all citizens equal protection under the law. ... The United States Congress acted on this in 1964 by passing the Civil Rights Act. ...

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Jackson immediately vetoed the Civil Rights Act as soon as he could. ... The Act was met with much opposition. ... This led to the passage of the Enforcement Act in 1870. ... The last of the Reconstruction Act was the Civil Rights Act of 1875. ... -Civil Rights Act of 1875. ...

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(L) Other bills were passed such like the Freedmen's Bureau act.... This act obligated the south to start over again and to began to reform. ... (T517) The black people did not get any protection from the government in till the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited racism in public places....

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A Northern victory would mean ultimate freedom for slaves; a Southern victory would insure the protection of slavery in all Confederate states. ... Congress was busy passing legislation such as the Morrill Tariff Act, the National Banking Act, and the Homestead Act of 1862. ...

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(Zinn, 199) When Hayes beat Tilden in the presidential election by promising to end the Reconstruction in the South, it was evident that the White House would no longer support any calls for the protection of blacks. ... A final blow to the hopes for national protection of African American civil rights was dealt with The Force Bill of 1890. ... With the protection and support of Northerners lost, the blacks in the South were held hostage by white supremacists. ... The Court prompted discrimination by implying that if blacks wanted legal protection, they would need to seek it from their stat...

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A respectable group who educated blacks and taught them how to be productive members of society, was the Union League; also, the Union League provided protection for blacks in danger of being terrorized. ... The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was soon brought into play. It was "an act to provide for the more efficient government in the Rebel States." ... This act stated that there was no legal government in any of the Ex-Confederate states except Tennessee. ... Life was tried to make much safer for Southern Blacks with the Force Acts and the Ku Klux Klan Act. ...

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- radical reconstruction- the act divided the former Confederate states into five military districts, each having constitutional conventions in which blacks would participate, backed by protection by fed troops. these conventions were mandated to draft new constitutions, which had to include provisions for aan suffrage. ...

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American Industries were no longer child industries, they had grown and were now needed more and more protection from foreign trade competition. ... He also worked out the Deposit act and the Specie Circular act to keep capitalist and wealthy politicians who used the fluctuating cash value to remove large sum's of money from the bank. The Specie Circular act required that all land would be bought in gold and silver pieces. The Deposit act raised the amount of banks that were deposit banks. ...

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" On the contrary, in the same document, the women wrote to the mayor of the city stating, "We have agreed and are willing to pay $25 or $50 for licenses as protection, so we can control the washing for the city. ... "The man who will not fight for the protection of his wife and children is a coward and deserves to be ill treated. ... " He continues to tell them to act with the law of retaliation: an eye for an eye. ... Baker's small act of resistance against racist White terrorists, Whites were rendered unsuccessful, and it shouldn't go unnoticed. ... This courag...

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Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. In the years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sectional disputes grew to momentous proportions as the country drifted toward disunion. ... The Court decreed that slaves, falling under the protection of the Fifth Amendment as private property, could be legally brought into any territory. Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutio...

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Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. In the years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sectional disputes grew to momentous proportions as the country drifted toward disunion. ... The Court decreed that slaves, falling under the protection of the Fifth Amendment as private property, could be legally brought into any territory. Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutio...

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Four years later, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was much more divisive, splitting the Democratic Party according to sectional interests and augmenting the Republican Party. In the years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, sectional disputes grew to momentous proportions as the country drifted toward disunion. ... The Court decreed that slaves, falling under the protection of the Fifth Amendment as private property, could be legally brought into any territory. Thus, the Supreme Court deemed both the Mason-Dixon Line of the Compromise of 1820 and popular sovereignty of the Kansas-Nebraska Act unconstitutio...

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The Alien Sedition Act of 1798 extended the Naturalization Act to fourteen years. ... Ramirez does not violate the Equal Protection Clause in the fourteenth amendment. ... The court decided that denying citizens the right to vote is against the Voting Rights Act in section two. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a piece of legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. ... Gregoire and stated that the criminal disenfranchisement laws do not violate section two of the Voting Rights Act. ...

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The Radicals, who were strongly against slavery, believed that the protection for black rights should be a precondition for the readmission of the southern states. ... Johnson won out on blocking the Freedmen bill, but the Civil Right Act won because of the two-third majority votes and overrode his veto. ...

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From the day that the religiously persecuted set sail for the new world from the "old" to escape religious oppression to the day of the passing of the Civil Rights Act, America's past abounds with stories of freedom both won and lost as people of every race and sex fought and continue to fight to obtain the right to act and think as individuals. ... For years, England had imposed act after act upon the American public. These acts, which called for things such as the taxing of paper goods (Stamp Act, 1765) and the hindering of trade through the forbidden issuing of paper money by the ...

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He spoke against proposals to raise the tariff rate; he opposed measures that encouraged army officers to give aid and protection to fugitive slaves; he spoke against the bills to abolish slavery.# Vallandigham believed that these measures would prevent the restoration of the Union. ... He had supported the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and the National Banking Act of 1863, but he opposed Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch's plan to retire the greenbacks in circulation and pushed a compromise plan for resuming specie payment.# John Sherman was responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act i...

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